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Residents tell Mankato council to rescind AI surveillance approval; city manager says authorized systems don't connect to national database
Summary
Multiple residents at the June 23 meeting asked the council to rescind its June 9 approval of AI surveillance technology and demanded more public engagement; the city manager said the systems the council authorized do not connect to a national database and are regulated by the Minnesota Governmental Data Practices Act.
Residents who spoke during the Mankato City Council public forum on June 23 urged the council to rescind a prior vote approving an expansion of police surveillance technology and to give civil-rights experts the opportunity to speak to the council.
Ava (surname not provided), who said she represents a local organization, told the council she and others met with a state ACLU representative and a surveillance-technology expert and asked the council to "rescind your vote approving the AI surveillance proposal" and to allow ACLU experts the same platform the director of…
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