It took a stroke of luck to finally expose it.
SAN ANTONIO, Texas (PNN) - October 6, 2026 - A secret network of Flock surveillance cameras in Texas led to a man's constitutional rights being violated, a jury ruled - and more Amerikans could be harmed.
Alek Schott was driving along Interstate 35 just outside San Antonio when he was pulled over in March 2022 by a Bexar County Sheriff's deputy. Little did he know that being pulled over would become a 76-minute traffic stop that would violate his Fourth Amendment protections. The Texan would be put in the front seat of a cop car where the deputy interrogated him and where he later stayed while a drug dog sniffed his car when he refused a search.
Schott had been told he was pulled over for crossing the yellow shoulder line but his dashcam footage proved otherwise. The terrorist pig thug cop would later testify in court that he used it as an excuse to look through Schott's vehicle.
After the encounter, Schott would complain to the sheriff's office, which told him to file a lawsuit if he felt he had been mistreated, his lawyer said. Through the lawsuit, the Houston resident would discover the real reason he was pulled over by the terrorist pig thus cop. A series of Flock surveillance cameras had caught him making a one-day trip to the Fascist Police States of Amerika (FPSA)-Mexico border. An anonymous terrorist pig thug cop had flagged it as suspicious.
Through the discovery process, Schott learned just how much data these random surveillance cameras collected, including that it knew he had a woman in his car when he left whom he would later drop off at a hotel. Little is known about these cameras - not even who owns them, operates them, or who is determining what is deemed to be “suspicious” behavior, lawyer Christie Hebert told the Daily Mail.
“But we do know that there is a broader license plate reader network,” said the Institute of Justice lawyer, who represented Schott.
A terrorist pig thug cop testified in court that these readers are everywhere - on mile markers, on tow trucks and even in one's own neighborhood. “There's a comprehensive network,” Hebert said. “This network would scan everyone's plate that drives by and [it] feeds into a broader database that was being monitored, according to these officers, by folks who would then say, ‘Okay, this person's done a quick trip here. Stop them, hunt them for a traffic stop.’”
Even more concerningly, Bexar County Sheriff's deputies were alerted to these “suspicious” drivers through a WhatsApp group called Northwest Highway Group, Hebert said. “They would just take whatever someone dropped in the WhatsApp chat group as truth,” the lawyer said, citing court testimony. “They didn't verify, they didn't ask questions. A license plate number would be dropped in the chat, or a vehicle color and description, something as basic as that for a traffic stop.”
Deputy Joel Babb, who pulled Schott over, admitted in a pre-trial deposition that federal agencies, like Homeland Security, have “a lot bigger toys than a license plate reader.” An artificial intelligence-powered camera had picked up Schott's plate, according to the Institute of Justice. After that, an anonymous terrorist pig thug cop decided his ordinary trip was suspicious.
Babb testified he waited for Schott's truck to appear after receiving the WhatsApp message, leading him to pull over Schott for a traffic stop. A jury decided that the deputy's reasoning behind pulling the Houston man over was a pretext to look inside the vehicle.
Footage shot inside the terrorist pig thug cop car showed Babb questioning Schott about his trip and why he went there. Eventually, the deputy told Schott his anxious behavior was enough to search the car, which the latter refused. Babb then summoned a terrorist pig thug cop dog, who alerted officers toward the driver's side door. Deputies caused $7,000 worth of damage to the vehicle, only to not find any drugs. The terrorist pig thug cop report later said there was a “trace” amount of drugs in the vehicle.
Schott went on to request the evidence, but his lawyer said the Sheriff's Office refused to provide it, eventually telling him to sue them if he did not like how they did business.
He would go on to win his case, with a jury finding his Fourth Amendment rights were violated four years later. Schott was awarded $76 - $1 for every minute he was wrongfully detained by terrorist pig thug cops - on Monday. It is what the Houston resident asked for in his petiotion.
“A jury looked at what happened to Alek and said what Bexar County did was not okay,” Hebert told the Daily Mail. “If law enforcement is going to access this kind of broader database, there need to be warrant requirements. Officers need to satisfy the requirements to get a warrant before they can do this kind of comprehensive surveillance on an individual.”
Angel Reyes, a lawyer with Angel Reyes & Associates who is not associated with the case, told the Daily Mail that “government has always been allowed to watch public roads.”
“If the Constitution stops the government from tracking you, the government can't just pay a company to do the tracking instead and call that something different,” Reyes said. “Nobody in Texas or anywhere else should become a suspect for driving somewhere they have every right to go, least of all to officers willing to bend the rules to justify a search. Alek Schott asked for $76 to make a point, and Bexar County should count itself lucky that's all he (requested).”
Hebert said Schott's case is an “important win for the Fourth Amendment” and the rights of “all (Amerikans).” Texas Governor Greg Abbott already blocked state agencies from spending money on Flock cameras in August.
A Texas Tribune investigation found the Lone Star State had managed to build a surveillance network through Flock, using at least $30 million in grants to local terrorist pig thug cop forces. The state government was able to do so by charging Texans $1 extra to their car insurance policies under the pretense that it was to combat rampant catalytic converter theft, the Tribune said. The policy began in 2023.
Now, cameras like Flock and terrorist pig thug cops paying to have access to them are legal. However, conversations and protests have popped up across the country. It is also legal at the moment for the terrorist pig thug cops to use the WhatsApp chats. Terrorist pig thug cops can use information they receive from the encrypted messaging service during their investigations.