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What Is the RTIC: Plain-language explainer on what was actually approved.
What They Can Actually Learn About You: What a plate scan becomes: your routes, your associations, your name, from court records, audit logs, and APD’s own briefings.
Who Gets Watched: The lived stakes for immigrant families, people traveling here for reproductive care, and protesters. The promises made to them failed everywhere audits were pulled.
Timeline: What happened, when, with receipts.
Speak at Council: You get 3 minutes; here’s how to use them. Next meetings: council Tuesday, Aug 25 · Public Safety Committee Thursday, Sept 24.

The May 12 Vote: Minute-by-minute reconstruction of the midnight vote, from the city’s own video.
May 7: The Contract That Didn’t Exist: Five days out: the contract isn’t written, and “one camera” is explained as a network subscription.
April 28: The Sales Pitch: Vendor reps flown in, no public comment, the Durham example collapsing live.
March 25, 2025: First RTIC Money, on the Consent Agenda: Buried between bulletproof vests and DEA grants; “the center already exists.”
March 7, 2025: The Briefing That Almost Didn’t Happen: Council learns of a two-year-old surveillance program because one member read the news.
Council’s Private Check-Ins: The private three-by-three meetings where council business gets decided before the public ever sees it.
The People Who Showed Up: 36 residents, nine meetings, all but one opposed: the community’s strongest arguments, verbatim and timestamped.
Oversight Theater: Thirty-five years of promised police oversight in Asheville, and the powerless versions delivered every time.
The Public Safety Committee: Every recorded meeting, reviewed: zero RTIC oversight, 93 people charged under the ordinance it did advance; and the one meeting that touched the RTIC has no recording.
Promise Tracker: What APD promised on the record, and whether it holds.
Their Claims vs. The Record: Every claim used to sell the RTIC, quoted exactly, answered with the documented record.

Watching the Poor: ~500 cameras already watch Asheville’s housing communities. The national record shows exactly what that becomes.
Follow the Money: The BID, the TDA, and the surveillance buildout: three money streams, one downtown coalition, the same 6–1 votes.
What Axon Contracts Do: What the same paper did to Baltimore, Mesa, Fontana, and Evanston, plus the data program the contract enrolls the city in by default.
Getting Flock Out: Why the Axon swap isn’t an exit, what “one camera” actually keeps, and the four-part motion that ends it for real.
The Flockbook: Flock’s leaked script for selling councils on cameras, laid beside what Asheville officials actually said: the same script, delivered locally.
Before You Connect Your Cameras: For business owners: what integrating your cameras with the police network actually signs you up for.

The National Wave of Cancellations: 50+ communities have dropped these systems. Why.
How Cities Won: The mechanics behind every documented rollback: what flips officials, what works, what backfires, and Asheville’s exit map.
The Abuse Record: How surveillance abuse actually gets discovered (almost never by the safeguards), including NC’s own 2026 cases.
WNC and NC: Ten community deep-dives, from Asheville’s own timeline to Macon’s win to Brevard’s live fight.

Records Center: Fourteen pre-written public records requests that would answer this site’s open questions. Copy, paste, file. Refusals are answers too.
Election 2026: Where every candidate stands, including the ones staying silent. Early voting starts Oct 15.
People: Profiles of every official and candidate: their votes, their words, their silence.
Claims Library: Citable, sourced facts for petitions, letters, and op-eds.
Documents: The primary sources: official minutes, resolutions, APD policies, released and refused records.
Get Involved: CAMS, Sunshine Labs, SASSI, DeFlockNC, and how to plug in.
Sources: Full bibliography.