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Residents press council on AI surveillance and park safety during public forum
Summary
Several residents used the July 14 public forum to urge the council not to proceed quickly with AI-enabled surveillance and to raise safety and harassment concerns at Jackson Park. Speakers described peaceful protest at earlier meetings and questioned expanding surveillance contracts and public-safety spending.
Residents raised concerns about proposed AI-enabled surveillance, local policing and safety at public spaces during the City Council’s July 14 public forum.
Kat Hohenstein, who identified herself as a Mankato resident of 15 years, said she and others attended peaceful meetings earlier in June to oppose a proposed AI-surveillance system and criticized language in media coverage that characterized the June 9 meeting as "drama." "I was here on June 9. I was here at the previous, meeting on the 20 third. Every civilian who was in here was incredibly peaceful," Hohenstein said. She said it was "disingenuous and insulting and horrific to make these excuses to shut out the public for comment," and noted the council had considered a roughly $130,000 purchase for…
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