surveillance_spending: 1937

A DISCOVERY INDEX of surveillance and police-technology dollar figures found in local government meeting records across 130+ named vendors — NOT a table of confirmed spending, and NOT safe to SUM. An audit on 2026-07-29 found aggregate views were adding amounts that must not be added: the same procurement recurs at committee, council, approval, amendment and renewal stages; "not to exceed" figures are authorization ceilings, not payments. Use the canned query "the CONSERVATIVE total" for any number you intend to publish, and "data-quality report" to see what is flagged. Columns added for this: `amount_type` (stated / ceiling / proposed / recommended / estimated), `dup_rank` (>1 = redundant copy), `geo_suspect` (city disagrees with the source link), `anomaly` (implausible figure), `state_norm` (normalized state). Vendors covered include ALPR (Flock, Vigilant, Genetec), body cameras/tasers (Axon, WatchGuard, Utility, Getac), gunshot detection (ShotSpotter/SoundThinking), face recognition (Clearview AI, DataWorks Plus), fingerprint biometrics (Idemia AFIS/Livescan, filed separately under `sv:biometrics`), data fusion and OSINT (Fusus, Peregrine, LexisNexis Accurint, Thomson Reuters CLEAR), phone forensics (Cellebrite, GrayKey, Magnet), drones (Skydio, BRINC, DJI), cameras/VMS (Verkada, Avigilon), cell-site simulators, CAD/RMS records systems, photo enforcement, jail-call and student monitoring. Every row carries a VERBATIM quote from the minutes and a link to the source document, and a row only publishes if that quote was found character-for-character in the source text. READ THE `ledger` COLUMN: `sv:<category>:<vendor>`. `radio_infra` (two-way radios), `rms` (records/CAD software), `biometrics` (fingerprints) and `not_surveillance` are NOT surveillance sensors — exclude them before quoting any surveillance figure.

Data license: CC BY 4.0 · Data source: MyTown

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rowid	vendor	city	state	spend_date	product	amount	quote	source_document	mytown_record	ledger	amount_type	dup_rank	geo_suspect	anomaly	state_norm
1937	Flock Group Inc.	Carmel-by-the-Sea	CA	2023-04-04	authorize 24-month service agreement for lease of ALPR cameras and software overlays	77900.0	Resolution 2023-031 authorizing the City Administrator to execute a 24-month service agreement with Flock Group Inc. for the lease of twenty-four (24) Falcon automated license plate reader (ALPR) cameras and six (6) Wing (ALPR) software overlays onto existing city cameras, for a year 1 cost of $77,900 and authorize the city manager to enter into a two-year renewal agreement to maintain the program, not to exceed $69,000 annually	https://carmelbytheseaca.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=431,plainText=false)	https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/carmelbytheseaca/2023/#m786842	flock	ceiling	3	0	0	CA