This section explains the machine: what the RTIC is, what the cameras collect, what the data turns into, and who lives under it first.
- What Is the RTIC: Plain-language explainer on what was actually approved: the center, the cameras, the sharing radius, the retention, the vendors.
- What They Can Actually Learn About You: What a plate scan becomes: your routes, your associations, your name, from court records, audit logs, and APD’s own briefings.
- Who Gets Watched: The lived stakes for immigrant families, people traveling here for reproductive care, and protesters. The promises made to them failed everywhere audits were pulled.
- Watching the Poor: About 500 cameras already watch Asheville’s housing communities. The national record shows what that becomes.
- The Sheriff’s Audit Log: Twenty-eight months of the county’s own Fusus access records: 58 percent of camera viewing on public housing, almost all of it live, most of it by three accounts, every timestamp withheld.
- Follow the Money: The BID, the TDA, the earmark, and the forfeiture funds: who pays for the buildout and who asked for it.
- Before You Connect Your Cameras: For business owners: what integrating your cameras with the police network actually signs you up for.
The companies behind it: The Vendors. The rules it runs under: The RTIC Policy. The laws above it: What the Law Lets the County Do.