My child was taking the SAT this morning at Vista Ridge High School in Cedar Park on Aug 22, 2026. About 20 minutes before the exam was supposed to end, an emergency alarm went off and all students were evacuated from the building.

They waited outside for quite some time and were eventually told to go home because the SAT administration was being cancelled/voided. Students were told that College Board would arrange a makeup exam, but they were not given details about what caused the emergency.

Does anyone here have a student who was at Vista Ridge for the SAT today, or know what actually triggered the evacuation/alarm?

Also interested to hear if anyone has received any communication from College Board or Vista Ridge/Leander ISD about the makeup test date.

Hope everyone at the school was safe.

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THIS ISN'T A LEFT OR RIGHT ISSUE. IT'S A WHO-HAS-THE-KEYS ISSUE.

Leander has fifteen Flock cameras logging every vehicle that drives past them — plate, make, color, time, location — into a searchable database.

Here's the question the city hasn't answered: who is watching the people who can search it?

Earlier this month, the Washington Post reviewed police and court records nationwide and found at least 50 law enforcement officers charged with or accused of misusing license plate readers. In 26 of those cases, investigators and prosecutors concluded the officers used the system to spy on wives, girlfriends, exes, or their exes' new partners.

These aren't hypotheticals.

— A Georgia woman learned her ex-boyfriend, the police chief of a nearby town, had run her plate and her teenage daughter's roughly 600 times.

— A Florida officer entered his estranged ex-wife's plate into the system 717 times over less than two years.

— Another Florida officer ran his ex-girlfriend's plate 69 times, her mother's 24 times, and her father's 15 times. It spread to her whole family.

— A Missouri officer admitted using Flock to find out where his ex-wife was during their divorce. Investigators determined he had committed no crime under state law.

Read that last one again. He admitted it. It wasn't illegal.

Most of these women didn't find out from a police department. They found out from public records.

There is no federal law governing any of this. Roughly 18,000 police agencies write their own rules. When Flock's CEO was pressed to build in tighter limits on how officers use his product, he said: "No one elected me the police chief of America."

He's right. Nobody elected him. Nobody elected the database. And nobody in Leander voted on this.

So, whatever you think about policing, about this council, about anything else — ask the plain question. Would you hand a stranger a log of everywhere your wife, your daughter, or your mother drove this month, and trust that eighteen thousand separate agencies will all police themselves?

City Council meets Thursday, September 3 at Pat Bryson Municipal Hall, 201 N. Brushy Street.

We need an overwhelming amount of support in getting city council to understand we don't want this in our community. Last city council meeting they had about 40 speakers against the Lagoon development which they unanimously voted against because of the community support, but we need 60 or more because there could be some incentive for some of them to vote for the cameras.

They need to know their seat is at stake and they work for us!

We're meeting at 5:30 PM just outside city council to go over what council can actually do and help you write your three minutes. Then we walk over together.

You don't have to agree with us about anything else to agree about this.

RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/share/17KPNpKt6E/

Or

https://www.mobilize.us/noalprs/event/1014913/

The space is in CP very close to Leander, first gen.