After months of resident protests, Bandera, Texas voted 3-2 to terminate its contract with Flock Safety, which had installed AI license plate reader cameras using state funding. Camera poles were repeatedly destroyed by vandals, forcing the town to replace them at its own expense before abandoning the controversial surveillance system entirely.

In response, Councilmember Jeff Flowers proposed a radical "Bandera Declaration of Digital Independence" that would ban all technology within the town limits. Flowers, a staunch supporter of the surveillance system, suggested privacy advocates were hypocrites for opposing cameras while using smartphones and other digital devices.

Flowers' measures include banning cellular devices, GPS technology, outward-facing cameras, and all internet services. He advocates returning to 1880 standards with paper ledgers and cash transactions only, essentially proposing that Bandera abandon modern technology entirely rather than just the surveillance cameras.