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Lawmakers added $1 to Texans’ car insurance policies. The money paid for thousands of Flock cameras.

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In 2023, the Texas Legislature unanimously passed a law raising auto insurance costs for Texans by $1 to combat rampant catalytic converter theft. Three years later, a little-known state agency has devoted at least $30 million of that fee toward supercharging the state’s Flock surveillance network, placing cameras along highways and streets from El Paso...

First report: Lawmakers added $1 to Texans’ car insurance policies; that money paid for thousands of Flock cameras — abc13.com, 15d