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surveillance_spending: 2498

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.

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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
2498 Motorola Solutions Green River WY 2026-03-17 body cameras (approve contract) 110039.0 Council Member Killpack moved to approve the agreement with Motorola Solutions, Inc., for the purchase of new V700 body cameras for the Police Department , in the amount of $110,039 and authorize the Mayor to sign the agreement, the Governing Body hereby finding that the commitment of Motorola Solutions, Inc., to provide the services specified for the term of years specified has been determined to constitute a significant benefit and advantage to the City and the Public, in that such services are not readily or economically available to the City in the absence of an extended term contract. https://www.cityofgreenriver.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_03172026-450 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/cityofgreenriver.org/#m1579550 sv:motorola:motorola stated 1 0 0 WY
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