surveillance_spending: 2030

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
2030	Flock Safety	San Leandro	CA	2023-09-18	vote on amendment to approve and authorize	807150.0	Adopt a Resolution to Approve and Authorize the City Manager to Execute Amendment No. 1 to an Existing Consulting Services Agreement With Flock Safety to Extend the Contract Term an Additional Five Years from Date of Execution, Purchase and Install 41 Additional Flock Automatic License Plate Reader (ALPR) Cameras, and to Increase the Maximum Amount of Compensation by $807,150.00 for a Total not to Exceed Amount of $1,057,150.00 and to Authorize Additional Cumulative Agreement Amendments Up to 10% ($105,715.00)	https://sanleandro.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=M&ID=1061932&GUID=C16FD4A0-8952-4285-A193-CCE3B27F27D3	https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/li-sanleandro/#m888955	flock	ceiling	1	0	0	CA