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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5 rows where ledger = "axon" and state = "NM" 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
41 41 Axon Los Alamos County NM 2026-01-27 bundle/OSP 6826839.59 Purchase of Public Safety Video Systems and Related Services from Axon Enterprise, Inc in the Amount Not to Exceed $6,826,839.59 https://legistar.granicus.com/LosAlamos/meetings/2026/1/5901_A_County_Council_-_Regular_Session_26-01-27_Agenda.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/losalamos/#m595115 axon ceiling 1 0 0 NM
237 237 Axon Cibola County NM 2024-06-13 bundle/OSP 923062.27 $923,062.27 requisition for Axon Tasers, Body & Dash Cameras for the Sheriff's Office https://www.cibolacountynm.com/06.13.2024%20Special%20Canvassing%20Commission%20Minutes.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/rz-cibolacountynm.com/2024/#m7537264 axon stated 1 0 0 NM
318 318 Axon Roswell NM 2025-12-11 bundle/OSP 577147.0 Approved five‑year Axon Enterprise contract for crime‑center software and hardware ($577,147) https://www.roswell-nm.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_12112025-2959 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/roswell-nm.gov/2025/#m1220553 axon stated 1 0 0 NM
319 319 Axon Roswell NM 2025-12-04 other 577147.0 Consider approval of a 5-year contract with Axon Enterprise, Inc. for the Fusus real-time crime center software, hardware, and implementation services. https://public.destinyhosted.com/agenda_publish.cfm?id=76793&mt=ALL&get_month=12&get_year=2025&dsp=ag&seq=307 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/aq-76793/2025/#m6748837 axon stated 1 1 0 NM
1233 1233 Axon Angel Fire NM 2024-12-16 body cameras 14127.14 Approve Contract with Axon Lapel and Dash Cameras (Chief Hogrefe) e Chief Hogrefe with the Police Department said the Axon lapel and dash cameras will be able to capture more than the current Lenslock Lapel Cameras they currently have. e . The Police Department was given 2 separate quotes. $14,127.1 https://www.angelfirenm.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_12162024-672 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/angelfirenm.gov/2024/#m1295116 axon stated 1 0 0 NM

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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);