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throughline No. 203 October 1, 2026

Lakeway Police Shared Login Ran 19 License Plate Searches Without Case Numbers

The accountability gap: a shared login removes the name, a missing case number removes the purpose, and a search run on another agency's request removes the chain of custody, so neither the state's official-purpose limit nor Lakeway's valid-reason policy can be checked from the record.

The accountability gap: a shared login removes the name, a missing case number removes the purpose, and a search run on another agency's request removes the chain of custody, so neither the state's official-purpose limit nor Lakeway's valid-reason policy can be checked from the record.

Lakeway police audit logs obtained by a resident show a shared Dispatch login ran 19 Flock plate searches in 30 minutes on March 28, 2025 at a school-district officer's request, nine with no case number.

Why it matters: Every driver in a Flock town is in the database; the only protection is that each search carries a named user and a documented reason, and the only way to check is a public information request filed one person at a time.

Date to watch: December 31, 2026: Flock's stated deadline to require case codes for all law enforcement searches; Bell's pending Public Information Act requests to Lakeway.

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