Mayor Carmella Mantello
Supports
- CensorshipShe blocks Troy residents who criticise her from the Facebook page where she speaks as mayor. In 2024 her office promised the city's pages were open to everyone, whatever their opinion.Read the record
- Party over peopleHer administration promised in 2024 that the city's pages were open to everyone, whatever their opinion. Since then it has used city channels to call the council liars and its bills "Pro-Criminal," and she told a court under oath that the residents who came to object were "three dozen or so paranoid souls."Read the record
- Emergency PowersEleven emergencies in under three years. Declaring one lets the city buy without taking bids and tear down buildings without the hearing an owner is owed.Read the record
- Flock SurveillanceTwenty-six cameras photograph every passing vehicle — about 159,000 a day in a city of 52,000 people. Police as far away as Houston, plus Border Patrol and ICE, have searched Troy's records.Read the record
The Mayor’s Track Record
- Blocked from the mayor's pageThe page titled "Mayor Carmella R. Mantello" blocks residents who criticise her. The city holds no record of which accounts are official channels of the Mayor's Office, and no policy governing what goes on them.
- Troy's Flock contract never went to the City CouncilA police captain signed Troy's first Flock contract in 2021 and the department signed again in 2022. The City Charter gives that power to the Mayor, the Purchasing Agent and the Council. No Troy agenda or minutes document mentions Flock until 2026.
- Party over peopleMayor Carmella Mantello's administration promised the city's channels were open to everyone, whatever their opinion. Since then it has called residents paranoid, the council liars, and its legislation Pro-Criminal — on city letterhead and under oath.
- What Troy's Flock audit logs showTroy's police department produced its Flock audit logs under a records request. They record 26 cameras, 25 million vehicles photographed in five months, and 5,309 outside agencies searching the data — 12 of them federal.
- "Our pages must be made available to everyone"In April 2024 the Mantello administration published a policy: Troy's city pages belong to everyone, whatever their opinion. They later called the council president a liar.
- "Dead when my administration took office"Mayor Carmella Mantello's campaign lists five first-term accomplishments in Troy, NY. The city's own archive dates all five to before she was sworn in.
- One emergency every two monthsEleven emergency declarations signed by Mayor Carmella Mantello in Troy, NY between January 2024 and April 2026, six in her first year alone.
- Mayor Carmella Mantello supports FlockMayor Carmella Mantello spent nine minutes defending Flock's license plate readers in Troy, NY. Thirteen days later she declared an emergency to keep paying.