Denton County commissioners are scheduled on Tuesday to approve new data security terms for the county's contract with Clearview AI, the facial recognition company whose search tool the county signed up for this fall.
The court approved an agency agreement with Clearview on Aug. 25 for what the agenda memo calls legitimate law enforcement and investigative purposes. The order form the two sides later signed is dated Sept. 30. Clearview's chief revenue officer signed the amendment on Oct. 28; County Judge Andy Eads would sign for the county if the court approves it on Nov. 10.
The memo, from Assistant District Attorney Linda Puckett, says the change is meant to reduce risk and carries no financial impact.
What the addendum requires
The amendment attaches the county's Cybersecurity and Data Access Addendum and swaps in Clearview's terms of service dated March 6, 2026. Under the addendum, Clearview must:
- keep county data in secure data centers and networks inside the United States;
- bar its workers from handling county data on personal devices or on technology the Texas Department of Information Resources lists as prohibited;
- limit access to staff who need it, log that access and hand the logs to the county on written request;
- have anyone with access to county systems or data complete a state-certified cybersecurity course every year;
- tell the county promptly in writing about any breach of county data and help with forensic work;
- carry at least $2 million in cyber liability insurance.
The addendum separates what the county owns from what Clearview keeps. Images and information that county users upload or derive from searches count as county data, while Clearview's own database of publicly available images, its search index and its algorithms do not.
