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.

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4 rows where ledger = "axon" and state = "LA" 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
5 5 Axon Baton Rouge LA 2026-07-22 bundle/OSP 31169176.74 Proposed 10-year lease bundle agreement with AXON Enterprises for police technology not to exceed $31,169,176.74 https://www.brla.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07222026-2412 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/brla.gov/#m1005525 axon ceiling 1 1 1 LA
181 181 Axon Baton Rouge LA 2025-01-08 body cameras 1380000.0 Police contract with AXON Enterprises for body camera storage and Taser equipment up to $1,380,000 https://www.brla.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_01082025-2027 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/brla.gov/2025/#m1207219 axon ceiling 1 1 0 LA
754 754 Axon Kenner LA 2024-08-08 other 100000.0 ving the use of State Contract No. 4400028582 and 5-year finance agreement with Axon Enterprises, Inc., for the purchase of the Axon Air Unmanned Aerial Vehicle System including all associated hardware, software, peripherals and applicable training in an amount not to exceed $100,000.00 for the Kenn https://www.kenner.la.us/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08082024-341 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/kenner.la.us/2024/#m1382275 axon ceiling 1 0 0 LA
1177 1177 Axon Lockport LA 2025-10-01 Tasers 21160.78 Authorizing the Purchase of 41 Axon Taser 10s https://lockport.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=4&clip_id=933 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/gr-lockport/2025/#m6365218 axon stated 1 0 0 LA

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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);