{"id":1,"date":"2026-08-26T17:53:50","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T17:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.eyesoffsaintpaul.org\/?p=1"},"modified":"2026-09-03T18:43:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T18:43:46","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.eyesoffsaintpaul.org\/?p=1","title":{"rendered":"City Council meeting of 2026-08-26 and its aftermath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The City Council today unanimously passed a resolution calling upon the City of Saint Paul and Ramsey County to end their contracts with Flock Safety.<\/p>\n<p>Following this vote, in a special public meeting on police surveillance technology and data privacy, citizens offered testimony on the subject. Twenty-seven people, most of them residents of St. Paul, voiced their strong opposition to AI-enabled surveillance. In addition, 27 citizens had submitted written comments opposing surveillance, while two wrote in support of Flock ALPR cameras.<\/p>\n<p>KARE11 reports: In a joint press release, St. Paul Mayor Kaohly Her and St. Paul Police Chief Axel Henry said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kare11.com\/article\/news\/local\/st-paul-taking-down-flock-cameras\/89-ebdb4505-ed8b-433b-a26d-6337b17f4511\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">the city&#8217;s Flock cameras will be removed<\/a>. No timeline was given.<\/p>\n<p>The Pioneer Press has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twincities.com\/2026\/08\/26\/st-paul-city-council-asks-city-ramsey-county-to-ditch-flock-cameras\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">more detailed coverage<\/a> of the council resolution and its aftermath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The City Council today unanimously passed a resolution calling upon the City of Saint Paul and Ramsey County to end their contracts with Flock Safety. Following this vote, in a special public meeting on police surveillance technology and data privacy, citizens offered testimony on the subject. Twenty-seven people, most of them residents of St. Paul, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.eyesoffsaintpaul.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.eyesoffsaintpaul.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.eyesoffsaintpaul.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eyesoffsaintpaul.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eyesoffsaintpaul.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eyesoffsaintpaul.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eyesoffsaintpaul.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.eyesoffsaintpaul.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eyesoffsaintpaul.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eyesoffsaintpaul.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}