Pasadena sergeant resigns amid probe into alleged Flock camera misuse
A Pasadena sergeant resigned while investigators were still reviewing claims he used Flock cameras to track a fellow officer. The case has renewed scrutiny of the city’s 73-camera network.
A Pasadena police sergeant resigned while an internal investigation remained active, keeping the city from closing a case now tied to allegations of Flock Safety camera misuse inside the department. The allegation centered on claims that the sergeant used the license plate reader system to monitor a fellow officer, raising new questions about who can search the network and how those searches are tracked.
At Pasadena City Hall, the Public Safety Committee revisited Flock use in March after more than a dozen speakers gave mostly critical comments about privacy, data sharing and possible misuse. By late May, city officials said they had received a very large volume of email ahead of another committee discussion, showing that the cameras had already become a live political issue before the resignation surfaced.
An independent audit released in early July found no evidence that the Pasadena Police Department’s Flock program was used in violation of state law or department policy, no evidence of unauthorized access and no evidence of immigration-enforcement use. Pasadena police also said the department conducted 18,648 Flock ALPR searches in 2025 and 9,162 searches in the first three months of 2026, a level of use that keeps the system central to daily policing in Pasadena and across the Houston area.
Pasadena’s own planning documents show the network was already large before the latest controversy. Police mapped 61 Flock cameras in 2025 and planned to add 12 more devices at three intersections, bringing the total to 73 cameras. The chief would not discuss pending details, and the department has not publicly released a full explanation of the case, leaving residents with unresolved questions about supervision, audit trails and whether resignation alone can deliver disciplinary transparency in a system built to follow vehicles across neighborhoods.
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