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 = "MT" 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
166 166 Axon Missoula MT 2023-09-18 body cameras, vehicle cameras, interview room cameras and digital evidence management 1563169.2 Approve and authorize the Mayor to sign an agreement with Axon to enter a five-year agreement for Axon for body-worn cameras, vehicle cameras, interview room cameras and digital evidence management at a cost of $1,563,169.20. https://pub-missoula.escribemeetings.com/Meeting.aspx?Id=43fa8c6d-14b3-4f85-90ef-8342e5ff5add&Agenda=PostMinutes&lang=English https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/pub-missoula/#m908691 axon stated 1 0 0 MT
564 564 Axon Kalispell MT 2024-10-07 bundle/OSP 180179.41 This item considers awarding Axon Enterprise, Inc. this bid in the amount of $180,179.41 per year. https://www.kalispell.com/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10072024-1208 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/kalispell.com/2024/#m1254067 axon stated 1 0 0 MT
900 900 Axon Cascade County MT 2023-09-12 Tasers 63369.0 Contract 23-142: Axon Enterprise, Inc. Services and Purchasing Agreement to replace existing tasers used at the Sheriff ’s Office. https://www.cascadecountymt.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_09122023-585 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/cascadecountymt.gov/2023/#m1369339 axon stated 1 0 0 MT
1411 1411 Axon Granite County MT 2023-06-01 body cameras 1462.0 AXON ENTERPRISE, INC BODY CAM X2 $1,462.00 https://www.granitecountymt.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_06012023-179 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/granitecountymt.gov/2023/#m1358842 axon stated 1 0 0 MT

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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);