{
  "id": 4721804,
  "title": "As Public Fury Mounts, Texas Pulls the Plug on Flock Surveillance Funding",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/31/as-public-fury-mounts-texas-pulls-the-plug-on-flock-surveillance",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-08-31T21:46:04.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Decrypt",
    "slug": "decrypt",
    "url": "https://decrypt.co/376999/texas-bans-flock-surveillance-funding"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Gov. Greg Abbott ordered state agencies to stop paying for the AI-powered license-plate readers as privacy concerns and officer-misuse scandals mount across Texas.",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}