Texas city demands $2.3M for public records on Flock cameras

North Richland Hills, Texas, asked a privacy group to pay $2.3 million for public records on Flock camera usage, claiming a search of "about a terabyte" of communications would take 14 years of labor at $15 per hour. Advocates call the fee a tactic to block transparency requests; other cities released records for free or charged up to $121,000.

• North Richland Hills priced a Flock records search at 14 years of work at $15/hour
• Some cities released 400,000+ pages free; others quoted up to $121,000
• An Oklahoma judge ruled a warrantless Flock database search unconstitutional
• Hundreds of Texas agencies use Flock cameras, but only 16 share data publicly