Council Member Robin Wonsley says she co-wrote a resolution urging the university and county sheriff to remove all Flock cameras
Robin WonsleyMember of the Minneapolis City Council for Ward 2
In her September 25, 2026 Ward 2 newsletter, Minneapolis Council Member Robin Wonsley wrote that she worked with Council Members Chavez, Stevenson and Osman on a resolution calling on the University of Minnesota and the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office to remove all Flock cameras across the city. She wrote that the cameras are part of a growing trend of excessive surveillance and that the committee approved the resolution with her voting in support.
“These cameras are part of a growing trend of excessive surveillance and technofascism. ... I worked with Council Members Chavez, Stevenson and Vice President Osman on a resolution calling on the University of Minnesota and Hennepin County Sheriff's Office to remove all Flock cameras across the city.”
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Should Flock-style license-plate surveillance networks exist?
Networked automated license-plate readers record passing vehicles and let agencies search or share travel records across locations. Candidates and officials disagree over whether to prohibit these networks, keep them with legal limits, or defend their use for investigations. This tracker records attributable positions on that choice, including proposals that would affect only public funding or data access.
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Ward 2 newsletter from Council Member Robin Wonsley, sent through the City of Minneapolis bulletin service at 1:21 PM CDT on September 25, 2026. The Flock item is written in the first person by Wonsley (I worked with Council Members Chavez, Stevenson and Vice President Osman) and is her own newsletter, not a joint release.
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Her newsletter says the City of Minneapolis owns no Flock cameras but the University of Minnesota Police Department and the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office do, and that residents in Cedar Riverside weeks earlier got the university police to take down the camera in their neighborhood.
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The newsletter says the Public Health, Safety and Equity Committee approved the resolution that week, with Council Members Chavez, Stevenson, Vetaw and Wonsley voting in support and Council Member Rainville voting against, and that the full City Council would consider it on October 1. The Ward 1 City Council update of October 2 says the full council approved the resolution.
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The reference point is whether networked license-plate reader systems such as Flock should exist and be used. Wonsley co-wrote a council resolution calling on the university and the county sheriff to remove all Flock cameras, voted for it in committee, and calls the cameras part of a trend of excessive surveillance. That is a call to end the cameras outright, so we labeled it Condemned and placed it at Ban on the remedy ladder. The closest competing label is Mixed or conditional, which would fit a call for limits or a pause; the newsletter asks for removal.
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The Dispute Index. "Council Member Robin Wonsley says she co-wrote a resolution urging the university and county sheriff to remove all Flock cameras". First published: 2026-10-07. Last updated: 2026-10-07. https://disputeindex.com/events/5037-in-her-september-25-2026-ward-2-newsletter