Can a apartment manager just watch cameras all day and make up rules for certain people?

Location: Minnesota

I’m in a program here that helps folks who used to be homeless. There’s a few of us in it. We get some help from a service agency. The rest of the people in the building are just regular renters.

The manager here is always in everybody’s business. You can’t even walk past the office without her hollerin at ya or askin where you’re goin. She tries to talk to everybody all the time like she owns the place. And she gossips a lot. Tells folks in the building stuff about other tenants that ain’t nobody’s business.

But the worst part is the cameras. There’s security cameras all over, which is fine I guess for safety. But she sits in the office and watches people on there all day long. Not everyone — just certain people. Mostly the ones in the program like me. She watches the footage and then comes out and threatens to write you up for stuff that don’t even make sense. Like, what the heck?

It’s like we’re all bein watched all the time. I don’t think that’s what security cameras are for. I don’t think it’s legal either.

And now she gave out a letter, but only to the folks in the housing program, sayin there’s a new rule that we’re not allowed to go in the underground garage unless we pay for a parking spot. Says if we do, we’ll get a lease violation. The thing is — that’s where the tornado shelter is. So what’re we supposed to do, stand outside in a storm?

We know she only gave the notice to the program folks, because there’s a Facebook group and everybody’s been talkin. The regular tenants didn’t get nothin.

Feels like she’s makin up rules just to try to get rid of us. I don’t know if this is legal or who to tell, but it ain’t right.