surveillance_spending: 3824

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
3824	SoundThinking	Oakland	CA	2024-10-08	gunshot detection subscription (renew)	2525010.0	Adopt A Resolution Authorizing The City Administrator To (1) Renew The Agreement Which Expired June 30, 2024 With Soundthinking Inc. For Gunshot Location Detection Subscription Service Coverage For Three Years In An Amount Not To Exceed Eight Hundred Forty-One Thousand Six Hundred Seventy Dollars ($841,670) For Each Year For A Total Not To Exceed Two Million Five Hundred Twenty Five Thousand Ten Dollars ($2,525,010) For The Period Beginning July 1, 2024 And Ending June 30, 2027;	https://oakland.legistar1.com/oakland/meetings/2024/10/9193_M__Public_Safety_Committee_24-10-08_Meeting_Minutes.pdf	https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/oakland/2024/#m146841	sv:gunshot:soundthinking	ceiling	2	0	0	CA