Title: City Council member · finance & project management background In this role since: Dec 2020 (elected Nov 2020; re-elected Nov 2024) Current term ends: Dec 2028 Next voter decision: not on a ballot until Nov 2028 · Election 2026
Surveillance record
Voted yes through the buildout: the 2023 Fusus interlocal, the 2025 grant votes, and both RTIC items on May 12, 2026 (each passed 6–1, Roney the sole no; confirmed on the city’s own video).
The broken condition, in her own words
Turner is the first member of the May 12 majority to publicly document that the deal she voted for isn’t the deal being delivered. From her public Facebook page (Aug 12, 2026, updated Aug 17): she supported the Axon contract “with conditions: the Flock contract would end and all city-owned Flock cameras would be removed,” stating plainly, “I do not support the City of Asheville maintaining and using Flock cameras.” Her August 17 update: “It is now clear the Flock cameras owned by the City of Asheville remain up.”
Her posts add two important details: she describes the “keep one camera” idea as a wind-down device (ride out the contract “through February” with the camera pointed “at a wall”), and her August 13 update said the complete Axon contract would be made public the next day (whether that release happened is being verified). The wall-camera plan has a technical problem she may not have been told: one active Flock camera retains the agency’s full national search access: the risk isn’t the camera on the pole; it’s the search account, which stays active.
Track this at Promise Tracker row 11. It matters for two reasons: it’s documented proof that conditions attached to the RTIC votes are not self-enforcing, and it makes Turner the natural second vote for putting conditions in writing, by ordinance. The complete four-part exit motion is drafted and waiting at Getting Flock Out.
And it moved something. Two days after her August 17 “calling my colleagues” update, the mayor called for a vote at the August 25 meeting to terminate the Flock contract and remove the cameras (WLOS). Whatever else drove the timing, the sequence on the record is: Turner documents the broken condition publicly, then the termination vote appears. The condition she attached in May gets its enforcement vote only after she went public in August.
At the August 20 briefing (attribution confirmed by watching the video; captions don’t label speakers) she said the most consequential unclaimed sentence of the meeting: “I’m not interested in canceling the Axon contract for body cams or dash cams… I did reach out to legal, I did learn Axon has ALPRs… maybe that’s a part of the contract we wish wasn’t there.” A member of the May 12 majority, on the record that the plate-reader component of the Axon contract she voted for may be unwanted. That is the natural seed of demand 7, a separate public vote before any fixed Axon plate reader goes up, and it makes her the member to hand that motion to: her Flock condition proved conditions need enforcement; her Axon question is the same instinct pointed at the replacement.
Questions for her
Will she move to enforce her condition: a council motion setting a removal deadline for the city’s Flock cameras? Would she support a feature-activation rule and published audits (Promise Tracker)? Contact: sageturner@avlcouncil.com
Region: Asheville · Last updated: Aug 20, 2026