Pflugerville officials terminated the city’s contract with Flock Safety during an Aug. 25 City Council meeting.

What happened: Council members voted unanimously to not renew a lease with Flock for automated license plate readers that would have cost $87,500 per year.

Ahead of the vote, City Manager James Hartshorn directed staff to cover the city-leased Flock cameras and turn off the license plate reader system until further direction was given by Council, according to a post on Facebook.

The post stated an issue was discovered in Flock's operating system that permitted nonpartner law enforcement agencies to access the city's Flock data.

Council member Jonathan Coffman said during the meeting that a Pflugerville resident’s review of Flock records raised questions about who could search data collected by the cameras.

What they’re saying: Pflugerville Police Chief Willie Richards spoke on the importance of technology in policing, but said he has identified significant issues that made it difficult to have confidence in Flock.

A new Indian grocery store and restaurant is open in Pflugerville.

The details: Desi Dukaan is located in Stone Hill Town Center, offering groceries, meats and freshly prepared foods.

Owned by Hari Nemireddy and other business partners, the 10,000-square-foot store sells lamb, chicken and seafood, and has an on-site restaurant, juice bar and bakery.

The store occupies the former Billiard Factory space, which closed in October.

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A data center in Cedar Creek, a new building for the Austin Community College Hays Campus and renovations at Liberal Arts and Science Academy are among the five most expensive projects filed with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation in the Austin metro this week.

1. EDCAUS ($700 million): A data center campus is being developed in Bastrop County.

2. Austin Community College - Hays Campus ($101 million): A three-story Health Sciences instructional building with classrooms, administrative offices, a testing center, vocational training, instructional spaces, and laboratories will be constructed at the Austin Community College Hays Campus.

3. LASA High School ($21.3 million): Renovations will take place at the Liberal Arts and Science Academy in Austin.

4. Bartlett's South ($4 million): A new location of Bartlett’s steakhouse is coming to Austin.

5. Smart Stop ($1.5 million): A new one-story convenience store and two future tenant spaces are coming to Pflugerville.

Republican incumbent John Carter will face off against Democratic candidate Justin Early and Green Party candidate Greg Stoker in the Nov. 3 election for U.S. House District 31.

Digging deeper: Texas' 31st Congressional District covers part of Williamson County, including Round Rock, Georgetown, Liberty Hill, Leander, Cedar Park and Hutto. Created in 2003, the district has been represented by Carter since its inception.

Community Impact reached out to all candidates who filed to run in the U.S. House District 31 race. Candidates were asked to keep responses under 50 words, answer the questions provided and avoid attacking opponents.

The Texas Department of Insurance must take action to promote competition and “prohibit excessive or unfairly discriminatory rate setting" in the state's homeowners insurance market, Gov. Greg Abbott said Aug. 24.

The background: Texans are paying the fourth-highest home insurance premiums in the nation, Community Impact previously reported. State data shows that the average Texas home insurance premium nearly doubled from $1,791 in 2016 to $3,506 in 2025.

The details: Abbott asked the TDI to prohibit insurers from using the age of a home and homeowners' personal data when setting rates; create a task force targeting insurance fraud; study the impact of inflated insurance claims; and require insurers to consider a homeowner's participation in a roof fortification program when writing policies.

Another perspective: "Under Greg Abbott, Texas has been one of the most expensive states in the country to own and maintain a home," Gina Hinojosa, the Democratic candidate for Texas governor, said in a statement. "If Abbott really wanted to lower costs, he would have done it in the last 12 years."