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 = "flock", state = "CO" and vendor = "Flock Group, Inc." 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
1623 1623 Flock Group, Inc. Denver CO 2025-05-05 approve amendatory agreement 666000.0 Amends a Framework Agreement with Flock Group Inc to add $666,000.00 for a new total of $1,005,450.00 and 24 months for a new end date of 02-28-2027 to provide solar-powered license plate recognition cameras, citywide (POLIC-202472539-00/POLIC-202578012-01). https://denver.legistar1.com/denver/meetings/2025/5/9502_M_City_Council_25-05-05_Council_Minutes.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/denver/2025/#m278209 flock stated 1 0 0 CO
1491 1491 Flock Group, Inc. Commerce City CO 2026-04-06 amend budget 608900.0 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE 2026 BUDGET OF THE CITY OF COMMERCE CITY, COLORADO BY THE RECOGNITION OF FUNDING FROM THE URBAN RENEWAL AUTHORITY, FEDERAL FORFEITURE FUND, CAPITAL EXPENDITURES FUND, AND GENERAL FUND IN THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF $ 608,900 FOR USE ON THE FLOCK EXPANSION PROJECT AND THE AUTHORIZATION OF THE EXPENDITURE THEREOF https://legistar.granicus.com/Commerce/meetings/2026/4/4626_M_City_Council_26-04-06_Meeting_Minutes.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/commerce/#m8528 flock stated 1 0 0 CO
1617 1617 Flock Group, Inc. Commerce City CO 2026-03-02 approved on first reading 608900.0 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE 2026 BUDGET OF THE CITY OF COMMERCE CITY, COLORADO BY THE RECOGNITION OF FUNDING FROM THE URBAN RENEWAL AUTHORITY, FEDERAL FORFEITURE FUND, CAPITAL EXPENDITURES FUND, AND GENERAL FUND IN THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF $608,900 FOR USE ON THE FLOCK EXPANSION PROJECT AND THE AUTHORIZATION OF THE EXPENDITURE THEREOF https://legistar.granicus.com/Commerce/meetings/2026/3/4562_M_City_Council_26-03-02_Meeting_Minutes.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/commerce/#m265081 flock stated 1 0 0 CO
2268 2268 Flock Group, Inc. Gunnison County CO 2023-12-05 approve the Consent Agenda 15750.0 Order Form; Flock Group, Inc.; Hardware and Software for Vehicle License Plate Reading Camera System; 12-Month Term; $15,750 https://www.gunnisoncounty.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_12052023-946 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/gunnisoncounty.org/#m1512975 flock stated 1 0 0 CO

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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);