Police Drone and Surveillance Technology Transparency

At a glance

Based on uploaded (human-made) captions; staff names are partly garbled, so staff are identified by role.

What: public testimony at a budget-related grant hearing objecting to police drone and body camera (Axon) contracts and asking for public release and a hearing.
Where it stands: testimony only; the grant item itself (a Metropolitan Council grant for an Eastwood Street site) was adopted after a recess. No council action on the contracts.
Next: none scheduled in the record.

Key points

Speakers said the contract and budget details were not released and that police could share data with federal authorities; they asked the city to end use of the drone vendor. These are the commenters' claims and are not verified here.
The chair warned that off-topic testimony would lead to a recess; the captions show no speech from 1:33:04 to 1:44:01, and later items passed by voice vote, 6-0.

Sources

2026-10-14 - City Council (uploaded captions)
https://stpaul.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx

Log

2026-10-14 - City Council - Three speakers objected to police drone and Axon contracts during a grant hearing; recess followed.