surveillance_spending

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

3 rows where ledger = "axon", state = "ID" and vendor = "Axon" sorted by amount descending

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Link rowid vendor city state spend_date product amount ▲ quote source_document mytown_record ledger amount_type dup_rank geo_suspect anomaly state_norm
840 840 Axon Minidoka County ID 2026-06-22 Tasers 77022.0 Approved Axon taser contract renewal for $77,022.00 https://www.minidoka.id.us/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_06222026-1160 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/minidoka.id.us/#m559762 axon stated 1 0 0 ID
940 940 Axon Kimberly ID 2023-09-26 body cameras 54118.62 The one-time fee is $55,841.10 less a one-time payment discount of 3.0845% (-$1,722.48) for a net onetime payment of, $54,118.62, due https://www.cityofkimberly.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_09262023-148 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/cityofkimberly.org/#m1587595 axon stated 1 0 0 ID
1032 1032 Axon Washington County ID 2025-06-02 other 37632.6 Thomas discussed the Axon Enterprise Quote for a security system for the Annex Building in the amount of $37,632.60 total or payments $7,526.52 per year for 5 years. https://www.co.washington.id.us/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_06022025-1222 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/co.washington.id.us/2025/#m1367954 axon stated 1 0 0 ID

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CREATE TABLE surveillance_spending (
  vendor TEXT, city TEXT, state TEXT, spend_date TEXT, product TEXT,
  amount REAL, quote TEXT, source_document TEXT, mytown_record TEXT, ledger TEXT, amount_type TEXT, dup_rank INTEGER, geo_suspect INTEGER, anomaly INTEGER, state_norm TEXT);
CREATE INDEX ix_surv_vendor ON surveillance_spending(vendor);
CREATE INDEX ix_surv_state ON surveillance_spending(state);
CREATE INDEX ix_surv_amount ON surveillance_spending(amount);
CREATE INDEX ix_surv_ledger ON surveillance_spending(ledger);