City officials in North Richland Hills, a suburb of Fort Worth, have requested $2.3 million to process a public records request regarding the use of Flock, an AI-enabled camera system that tracks vehicles. The Texas Tribune reported on Monday that the fee was proposed to the Texas Privacy Coalition, a group advocating for anti-surveillance measures. To justify the cost, officials stated that searching approximately one terabyte of communications concerning system errors, misuse, and effectiveness would require about 14 years of labor at a rate of $15 per hour. Phil Mynona, who filed the request using a pseudonym on behalf of the coalition, told the Tribune that the fee appeared ludicrous and was designed to stifle public records searches. This demand is part of a broader trend where some cities are charging anti-surveillance advocates and media outlets high fees to access information about police use of Flock technology.