Crossville
Photo: City of Crossville: City Council (original )
R.J. Crawford
Mayor
A decorative Flock Safety camera appears in the top-right of the banner, as if watching Crossville landmarks below.
Action · Nov. 3, 2026 city election
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Crossville City Council election is Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2026. Meeting times, a 3-minute speaking outline, and a Flock yes-or-no for every candidate on the ballot. Live outside the city limits? County Commission is on the Cumberland page.
Main Street photo: Brian Stansberry / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0) Corner Flock camera: MiracleMiles / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0)
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City Council, speaking, and what to ask
Coming in person beats email alone. Share this page, then bring a neighbor. Background research and the August letter are on the home page.
Current City Council members
Photo: City of Crossville: City Council (original )
Art Gernt
Mayor Pro-tem / Councilmember
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Mike Turner
Councilmember
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Mark Fox, MD
Councilmember
Vacant seat
Councilmember
Sources: WATE · 3B Media qualifying list · Ask those candidates on the record
Roster and term dates from the City of Crossville City Council page . Published emails from the city’s JECD board page and MTAS municipal directory (Mark Fox has no published direct address there). Official portraits are linked from the city’s published originals, not re-hosted here; each photo credit links back to that file.
September 1 work session
Residents asked again. Council still did not vote.
3B Media reported that the Tuesday, September 1, 2026 work session was packed. Three speakers asked the city to cancel Flock, publish local recoveries and arrest numbers, and put written access rules and audits on the record. They pointed to Knox County’s August 31 ban. One speaker said public-records requests still have not produced a signed contract. City Attorney Randy York’s August 12 position—that a Sixth Circuit decision and Tennessee’s plate-display rule leave no expectation of privacy in a tag—was already on the table. Speakers treated a searchable citywide log as a warrantless search instead. Council did not take a Flock vote. Other items moved toward formal votes at the next regular meeting, Tuesday, September 8, 6 p.m. at City Hall. Bring neighbors. Same ask: cancel and remove the cameras.
This site does not name civilian speakers. York is a city official. The home-page legal comparison is at Fourth Amendment. Knox County writeup: Tennessee.
Source: 3B Media (Sept. 2, 2026) . Next regular meeting: City Hall, 2nd Tuesday, 6 p.m.
November 3 election
Ask every candidate, on the record, where they stand on Flock
The live scorecard of public answers, including who has not answered, is on the Election 2026 page. Meeting times and speeches stay on this page.
3B Media published the Cumberland County Election Commission’s qualifying list on Aug. 20, 2026. City election day is Tuesday, Nov. 3. Early voting is Oct. 14 through Oct. 29. That story lists names. It does not quote a Flock or license-plate-reader position from any of them. Ask before you vote.
The live ask is the same one for sitting council: cancel Crossville’s Flock contract, remove the cameras, and refuse any plate-reader swap. Get a yes, a no, or a dodge you can quote.
Regular council seats
Incumbent Mike Turner plus four challengers, per 3B:
- Mike Turner (incumbent)
- Kristopher Cole
- Robbie Poore
- Greg Wood
- Danny R. Wyatt
Unexpired Mayberry term
One special-election seat through Dec. 2028:
- Kristopher Cole (also on the regular ballot)
- Melinda Kelsey
- Louis Morrison
When is the Crossville city election, and who is running for City Council?
Election day is Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2026. Early voting is Oct. 14 through Oct. 29. Regular City Council seats: Mike Turner (incumbent), Kristopher Cole, Robbie Poore, Greg Wood, and Danny R. Wyatt. Unexpired Mayberry term: Cole, Melinda Kelsey, and Louis Morrison. Those names come from the Aug. 20, 2026 3B Media qualifying list. Confirm the sample ballot with the Cumberland County Election Commission before you vote.
Have Crossville City Council candidates stated a position on Flock cameras?
The Aug. 20, 2026 3B Media qualifying list names the candidates. It does not quote a Flock or license-plate-reader position from any of them. Ask before you vote. Answers, including who has not answered, are on the Election 2026 scorecard.
Ask them at forums, on their campaign pages, at the door, and in letters the paper will print. Sitting councilmember Turner already has a city inbox: mike.turner@crossvilletn.gov. Challengers in that 3B list did not publish campaign emails there. Do not use a city form as if they already hold the seat. Answers go on the Election 2026 scorecard.
Copy-paste question:
Will you vote to cancel Crossville’s Flock contract, remove the cameras, and refuse any plate-reader replacement (Flock, Axon, or otherwise)? If you will not cancel, will you require a recorded public yes-or-no vote each year before any renewal, plus a public camera map and monthly search reports (who searched, what, why, hits, and sharing)? Please put that answer on the record.
Source: 3B Media, Aug. 20, 2026 . Confirm the sample ballot with the Cumberland County Election Commission before you vote.
3-minute speeches: pick a focus
Twenty-four ready-to-read scripts (two per focus). Neighbors should cover different angles so council hears the full case. Each script ends with the same ask: cancel and remove; require a public vote before any surveillance equipment is proposed again; if cancel stalls, require a yearly recorded renewal vote with no automatic rollover.
About 2 to 3 minutes at a calm pace. Replace [Your Name]. Prefer one speaker, one focus. Full catalog: JSON · generic outline: PDF.
The combined scripts cover open streams, misuse, and CEO messaging in one speech. Open-stream visuals point to 404 Media and Jordan’s video rather than re-hosted camera stills. Beyond-plates scripts pair with the patent vs marketing dossier. Security-only scripts pair with the open-streams dossier.
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Other questions worth asking
There is no remaining City Council meeting before this renewal. These questions still belong on the record. The live ask is cancel the contract and remove the cameras.
- Is Flock used, or allowed to be used, for moving-violation tickets in Crossville? Is a Flock Wing License, speed-camera ingest, or Speed Feedback Trailer in the live contract? Will council put a written ban on traffic-ticket use in the agreement? (background)
- Is any Flock drone / Drone as First Responder product in the live Crossville contract, on a trial, or in a quote? The CEO now says drones are the company’s fastest-growing line (Business Insider / All-In). Publish a yes or no.
- Who can search Crossville plate reads, for what reasons, and with what supervisor approval?
- Which outside agencies, including federal, can see or query Crossville’s data, and what written guarantees exist after Flock changed its story on federal access?
- Can police outside Cumberland County search our plates? Is Crossville enrolled in Flock’s National Lookup nationwide sharing program, and which out-of-state or federal agencies can request local reads?
- Is FreeForm enabled (type a description, including clothing or people, and search camera footage)? Who can run it, and how is it audited?
- Does Crossville have Multi-Geo and/or Convoy Search (tools that track a plate across cities or flag cars that travel together)? Who can run them, with what supervisor approval, and will the city publish use counts?
- Has council compared Flock’s public “no facial recognition / no race-gender” marketing with what its patent claims about searching people by appearance, and will the city publish which features are enabled?
- Does Crossville’s live Flock contract include a vendor “upgrades to platform” clause (other cities’ public agreements let Flock push upgrades in its sole discretion)? Who is notified if people-search or demographic features change?
- Are Investigations Manager / Multi-State Insights or other AI “suspicious activity” pattern tools enabled (ACLU analysis ), and how do they relate to Multi-Geo / Convoy?
- Has Crossville received any notice of the Dec. 2025 open Condor (Flock people-tracking video camera) livestream exposure, the 51 cybersecurity findings / related CVEs, or overseas annotation of U.S. imagery, and what models/security terms are in the live contract?
- Will Crossville publish retention settings under TCA § 55-10-302 ? A map and monthly reports help, but they are not a substitute for removing the cameras.
More background: Who Is Flock Safety?: MaryvillePrivacy.org
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