- Title
- City Council member & Vice Mayor · attorney · Public Safety Committee member
- In this role since
- Sept 2020 (appointed to the seat vacated by Vijay Kapoor; elected in her own right Nov 2022; chosen Vice Mayor by council Dec 10, 2024)
- Current term ends
- Dec 2026
- Next voter decision
- Nov 3, 2026: seeking re-election, having advanced from the March 3 primary with ~6% (BPR) · Election 2026
Record on cameras and surveillance
- January 24, 2023. Voted for the interlocal agreement joining the county sheriff’s Fusus camera network; passed 4 to 1.
- March 25, 2025. Voted for the first RTIC grant; passed 6 to 1. The meeting record.
- July 31, 2025. At the Public Safety Committee, asked staff about federal immigration access to the system (The Committee).
- May 12, 2026. Voted for the RTIC grant and the Axon contract; each passed 6 to 1. The meeting record. No public statement on the items before Aug 25, 2026 was found in council recordings, candidate questionnaires, or local coverage (checked through Aug 17, 2026).
- August 25, 2026. Cast one of the two no votes on the Flock termination resolution, which passed 5 to 2. Her statement: concerns about “privacy, data sharing, civil liberties and accountability… are not new for me,” citing her years representing the pedestrian beaten by an APD officer in 2017. “This whole thing feels deeply political to me. We are [in] the middle of an election season… My job is not to participate in political theater. My job is to govern… I cannot support this resolution in [its] current [form] tonight.” Asked what change would win her vote: “what we’re attempting to do quite frankly is a bait and switch, and I think we’re not giving our citizens credit for seeing that.” She read into the record a letter from the housing authority’s executive director: residents “want cameras… more security not less,” and “their absence at council meetings should not be mistaken for silence.” The meeting record.
- Sept 16, 2026. Answered the surveillance and check-ins questions at the West Asheville council candidate forum; her words and audio are in the forum section below.
- Sept 24, 2026. In a Mountain Xpress interview, on the surveillance votes: “As a liaison for the Housing Authority [of the City of Asheville], year after year, folks come to us … asking for more security. Because ‘snitches get stitches.’ When something happens, you can’t be the one to call it out, and you surely can’t contact law enforcement.” Surveillance, she said, “could be the difference between literal life and death,” and “So if we can do something to ward some of that off, I vote that way.” The paper also reports her view that the outrage over Flock came although the Sheriff’s Office has had a five-year Axon contract since late 2023, and that the council’s decision to cancel the Flock contract, set to expire in January, felt to her more like political convenience than sound policy (Mountain Xpress, Thomas Calder).
- Sept 28, 2026. At the WLOS council candidate forum, asked what the city should prioritize for public safety amid “ongoing questions about the use of surveillance and investigative technology and the protection of privacy and civil liberties”: “public safety and civil liberties are not competing values. Our responsibility is to protect both.” And: “technology should never be adopted simply because it is available. There should be a demonstrated public safety purpose, clear policies governing how it’s used, limits on data retention and sharing, appropriate oversight, and accountability to the public.” On the council’s decisions on the real-time intelligence center and plate readers, she said she has supported technology where there was “a legitimate public safety purpose and appropriate guardrails, and I have continued to ask questions about privacy, access to data, and how these systems are used” (forum video, 20:15).
She holds the council’s non-voting seat on the board of the Asheville Downtown Improvement District, the nonprofit that operates the downtown Business Improvement District she voted to create in June 2024 (Follow the Money).
At the Sept 16, 2026 candidate forum
Words are from an audience recording this site holds, with ums and repeats removed and nothing else changed; times are minutes into it. Every candidate’s answers are on the Sept 16 forum record.
On surveillance and the Flock vote (1:43)
“I’m the liaison for the Asheville Housing Authority on City Council. And those folks in those neighborhoods requested that we maintain the cameras. I think it’s very important who represents whom, and that even dissenting voices are heard. With that in mind, I’m willing to support those vulnerable neighborhoods.” (2:10)
“I happen to not believe that we have to choose between public safety and civil liberties. I think we can do both. And I think where we landed is a good indication that we can do both.” (3:09)
She described asking a prior gathering of Democrats how many had heard of the mass shooting on Biltmore and how many knew people or families involved: “very few” (2:42). Beside the record: no document on this site records a resident request to keep the cameras; the Sheriff’s access log shows 58% of logged camera views on public housing (the log · Cameras in Public Housing).
On three-person check-ins out of public view (56:33)
“There is no formal 3-by-3 process at this point with your city council … What we do now is we do regular agenda briefings, live, on air.”
“I understand why we don’t want 3-by-3s. I’m willing to forgo them, but also keep in mind that some parts of our community will suffer if we do forgo them.” (57:21)
Beside the record: reporting in 2025 and 2026 documents that the practice resumed after council’s February 2023 vote to replace it (the pre-meeting check-in sessions).
In her words
- “My job is not to participate in political theater. My job is to govern.” (council, Aug 25, 2026)
- “what we’re attempting to do quite frankly is a bait and switch” (council, Aug 25, 2026)
What is pending with her
- Whether she supports posting the itemized Axon quote and the Fleet contract, publishing the quarterly audits, and making the stated safeguards binding by ordinance (Promise Tracker). As of Sept 23, 2026, no public position on any of the three.
- Her seat is on the Nov 3, 2026 ballot (Election 2026). Contact: antanettemosley@avlcouncil.com.
Ballot note
A residency challenge, based on an Atlanta homestead exemption reported by Asheville Watchdog and BPR in December 2025, was unanimously denied by the Buncombe County Board of Elections on January 21, 2026 (BPR); a State Board of Elections inquiry remained open as of that reporting. She remains on the November ballot.
Region: Asheville · Last verified: September 8, 2026