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 = "flock", state = "CO" and vendor = "Flock Safety" sorted by amount descending

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  • flock · 5 ✖
Link rowid vendor city state spend_date product amount ▲ quote source_document mytown_record ledger amount_type dup_rank geo_suspect anomaly state_norm
1615 1615 Flock Safety Commerce City CO 2023-10-09 approved on first reading 298800.0 SECOND AND FINAL READING OF AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE 2023 BUDGET OF THE CITY OF COMMERCE CITY, COLORADO, BY TRANSFERRING $298,800 FROM THE UNENCUMBERED FUND BALANCE OF THE GENERAL FUND TO THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FUND FOR COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH THE FLOCK CAMERA SYSTEM AND AUTHORIZING THE EXPENDITURE THEREOF https://legistar.granicus.com/Commerce/meetings/2023/10/3636_M_City_Council_23-10-09_Meeting_Minutes.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/commerce/2023/#m264388 flock stated 1 0 0 CO
1616 1616 Flock Safety Commerce City CO 2023-11-06 amended the 2023 budget by transferring funds for the Flock camera system 298800.0 SECOND AND FINAL READING OF AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE 2023 BUDGET OF THE CITY OF COMMERCE CITY, COLORADO, BY TRANSFERRING $298,800 FROM THE UNENCUMBERED FUND BALANCE OF THE GENERAL FUND TO THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FUND FOR COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH THE FLOCK CAMERA SYSTEM AND AUTHORIZING THE EXPENDITURE THEREOF https://legistar.granicus.com/Commerce/meetings/2023/11/3640_M_City_Council_23-11-06_Meeting_Minutes.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/commerce/2023/#m264409 flock stated 2 0 0 CO
2038 2038 Flock Safety Englewood CO 2026-07-27 budgeted 69500.0 Capital Item #: 34 1101 024 Capital Item Title: Flock Safety Fund: 34-Police HQ Construction Fund Department: Police Project or Program: Project - Nonrecurring (defined Start and End Dates) Capital Budget and Estimated Costs: Budget Available YTD Spend Budget Remaining $69,500 $— $69,500 https://englewoodgov.civicweb.net/document/469767/City%20Council%20Study%20Session%20-%2027%20Jul%202026.pdf?handle=E718DADA211A41DFAACF88F853AFFC61 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/englewoodgov/#m980650 flock estimated 1 0 0 CO
1499 1499 Flock Safety Cañon City CO 2026-05-18 Award Bid (renewal) 45000.0 Award Bid 73-26: Flock Services Renewal Contract in an amount not to exceed $45,000. https://www.canoncity.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05182026-1131 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/canoncity.org/#m12726 flock ceiling 1 1 0 CO
1492 1492 Flock Safety Commerce City CO 2026-04-06 approve transfer 8000.0 A RESOLUTION OF THE URBAN RENEWAL AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF COMMERCE CITY AUTHORIZING AND APPROVING THE TRANSFER OF DERBY PLAN AREA FUNDS IN THE AMOUNT OF $8,000 TO THE CITY OF COMMERCE CITY FOR THE FLOCK EXPANSION PROJECT https://legistar.granicus.com/Commerce/meetings/2026/4/4821_M_Urban_Renewal_Authority_26-04-06_Meeting_Minutes.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/commerce/#m8530 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);