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 = "CT" and vendor = "Flock Safety" 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
1692 1692 Flock Safety Bristol CT 2024-07-09 approve agreement 72000.0 To approve an agreement between Flock Safety and the City of Bristol in the amount of $72,000.00 and to authorize the Mayor or Acting Mayor to execute any and all documents to effect said contract. https://bristolct.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=4379,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/bristolct/2024/#m398283 flock stated 1 0 0 CT
1726 1726 Flock Safety Middletown CT 2026-02-02 approving that Middletown Police Department and Middletown Fire Department to enter into contract with Flock Safety 50000.0 C. Approving that Middletown Police Department and Middletown Fire Department to enter into contract with Flock Safety for the Flock Safety Drone as First Responder (DFR) program is an all - in-one, fully automated air support system that provides rapid responses to enhance the safety of the communities served by their First Responders at a cost of $50,000.00 (Fifty Thousand Dollars) per year; https://www.middletownct.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02022026-11098 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/middletownct.gov/#m475950 flock stated 2 0 0 CT
1727 1727 Flock Safety Middletown CT 2026-01-28 authorize contract 50000.0 A Resolution by the Common Council of the City of Middletown authorizing the Middletown Police Department and Middletown Fire Department to enter into contract with Flock Safety for the Flock Safety Drone as First Responder (DFR) program is an all-in-one, fully automated air support system that provides rapid responses to enhance the safety of the communities served by their First Responders at a cost of $ 50,000.00 (Fifty Thousand Dollars) per year https://www.middletownct.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_01282026-11086 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/middletownct.gov/#m475983 flock stated 1 0 0 CT
1693 1693 Flock Safety Bristol CT 2024-11-12 approve 12000.0 To approve an agreement between Flock Safety and the City of Bristol in the amount of $12,000 for two additional cameras and to authorize the Mayor or Acting Mayor to execute any and all documents to effect said contract. https://bristolct.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=6484,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/bristolct/2024/#m398499 flock stated 1 0 0 CT
2064 2064 Flock Safety Beacon Falls CT 2025-03-25 budget discussion 9500.0 With the Flock cameras, we are beyond our 3-month trial, and they will give us the remainder of this year for $9500 for the first year, should we turn them off. https://www.beaconfalls-ct.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_03252025-116 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/beaconfalls-ct.org/2025/#m1202383 flock stated 1 0 0 CT

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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);