Every vote and quote on this site traces to a person. This page is organized two ways: by where the decision is made (the city, the county, the counties around us, the state and Washington, the vendors, and the people doing the public’s work), and within each, by the next date voters can act on the record. Titles and promises are revisable; election day is the one check officials can’t revise.
The headline for November 3, 2026: four of the six councilmembers who voted yes on the RTIC are on the ballot, the only no vote is running for mayor, the sheriff who built the county’s ~2,000-camera network is running for a third term, and five more WNC sheriffs’ races decide who runs the cameras next door. Early voting starts October 15. The full ballot view: Election 2026.
Asheville
Esther Manheimer (mayor, seeking a 4th term; yes on every RTIC item; called for Flock termination Aug 19) vs Kim Roney (the only no vote, running for mayor). Three council seats: Antanette Mosley, Sheneika Smith, and Maggie Ullman (all yes) against Drew Ball, Keith Young, and Jeffrey Burroughs. Not on a ballot until 2028: Sage Turner and Bo Hess. Running it without a ballot: D.K. Wesley (city manager), Jackie Stepp (interim chief; the Aug 14 memo), Sean Aardema, Brandon Moore, Jimmy Wingo, Brad Branham; the housing authority (Ella Santos) and Downtown Institutions. The full roster: Asheville.
Buncombe County
Quentin Miller (sheriff, seeking a 3rd term; built the Fusus network) vs Gary Parris. The Board of Commissioners that funds him, with three seats and its chair Amanda Edwards on the ballot; Martin Moore, the incoming DA; the county manager and finance director; the Board of Education that controls 1,500 school cameras; Todd Williams, the DA leaving in December. The full roster: Buncombe County. The network: Buncombe County.
Western North Carolina
Nine counties, nine sheriffs, and the commissioners and chiefs around them. Five sheriffs’ races are on the November ballot: Henderson (Lowell Griffin, unopposed, the 2,048-agency sharing list), Haywood (open: Mark Mease vs Tyler Howell), Madison (Buddy Harwood vs Robin Lyles), Rutherford (Aaron Ellenburg), and Buncombe. The commissioners who ended Flock in Macon (Josh Young, John Shearl, Barry Breeden), the chairman who said “You will not speak on Flock tonight” (Michael Garrison), the retiring chair who sees no problem “until we hear of some abuse” (Bill Lapsley), and the chief who narrowed his own sharing list (Daniel Duckworth). The full regional roster: Western North Carolina.
Raleigh and Washington
Josh Stein vetoed the ICE-cooperation laws and signed the budget that made highway plate readers permanent; Jeff Jackson has no position on file; Chip Hawley’s SBI wants cameras at “all entrances and exits to North Carolina”; Chuck Edwards earmarked the $1.14M and withdrew from the ballot; Jennifer Balkcom and Jamie Ager want his seat and have no surveillance record; Thom Tillis called Buncombe a sanctuary; Ted Budd co-wrote the bills. The full roster and the legislators’ roll calls: Raleigh and Washington. The laws themselves: What the Law Lets the County Do.
The vendors
Rick Smith (Axon, the 2033 contract and the streetlight readers) and Garrett Langley (Flock, the cameras being removed and the network that is not): The Vendors’ Executives. The companies: The Vendors.
The people doing the public’s work
Patrick Conant (Sunshine Labs), Jen Hampton (Food & Beverage United), Rebecca Hecht (the first business refusal on record), Benn Jordan (the Flock investigations), Austin Rhodes (Henderson’s petition), Mary Gibson (Madison), Annie Dance (Rutherford), Bobby Coggins (Macon). The roster: Community. Also The People Who Showed Up (36 Asheville residents, verbatim) and Get Involved.
Every profile opens with title, tenure, term end, and the next voter decision; every quote links its source; every profile closes with its region and the date it was last updated. See Election 2026 for the ballot view and Timeline for the events these records come from.