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.

Data license: CC BY 4.0 · Data source: MyTown

6 rows where ledger = "flock", state = "FL" and vendor = "Flock Group, Inc. DBA Flock Safety" sorted by amount descending

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  • flock · 6 ✖
Link rowid vendor city state spend_date product amount ▲ quote source_document mytown_record ledger amount_type dup_rank geo_suspect anomaly state_norm
1493 1493 Flock Group, Inc. DBA Flock Safety Wellington FL 2026-06-29 renew 143000.0 Authorization to renew a Sole Source contract with Flock Group, Inc. DBA Flock Safety for the Annual Licensing, Maintenance and Support of license plate reader (LPR) Cameras and Software, and Traffic Analysis Services, in the amount of approximately $143,000. https://legistar.granicus.com/Wellington/meetings/2026/6/4271_A_Village_Council_Workshop_26-06-29_Meeting_Agenda.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/wellington/#m9674 flock estimated 1 0 0 FL
1494 1494 Flock Group, Inc. DBA Flock Safety Wellington FL 2026-06-30 renew 143000.0 Authorization to renew a Sole Source contract with Flock Group, Inc. DBA Flock Safety for the Annual Licensing, Maintenance and Support of license plate reader (LPR) Cameras and Software, and Traffic Analysis Services, in the amount of approximately $143,000. https://legistar.granicus.com/Wellington/meetings/2026/6/4272_M_Village_Council__26-06-30_Action_Summary.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/wellington/#m9675 flock estimated 2 0 0 FL
1593 1593 Flock Group, Inc. DBA Flock Safety Wellington FL 2026-06-30 renew a Sole Source contract 143000.0 Authorization to renew a Sole Source contract with Flock Group, Inc. DBA Flock Safety for the Annual Licensing, Maintenance and Support of license plate reader (LPR) Cameras and Software, and Traffic Analysis Services, in the amount of approximately $143,000. https://wellington.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=4&clip_id=1789 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/gr-wellington/#m223360 flock estimated 3 0 0 FL
1594 1594 Flock Group, Inc. DBA Flock Safety Wellington FL 2026-06-30 renew 143000.0 Authorization to renew a Sole Source contract with Flock Group, Inc. DBA Flock Safety for the Annual Licensing, Maintenance and Support of license plate reader (LPR) Cameras and Software, and Traffic Analysis Services, in the amount of approximately $143,000. https://wellington.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=4&clip_id=1790 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/gr-wellington/#m223361 flock estimated 4 0 0 FL
1542 1542 Flock Group, Inc. DBA Flock Safety Wellington FL 2024-06-10 award contract 129550.0 Authorization to award a Sole Source contract to Flock Group, Inc. DBA Flock Safety for the Purchase, Delivery, Installation, and Annual Maintenance of License Plate Recognition (LPR) Cameras and Software in the amount of approximately $129,550.00. https://legistar.granicus.com/Wellington/meetings/2024/6/3630_M_Village_Council_Workshop_24-06-10_Action_Summary.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/wellington/2024/#m149588 flock estimated 1 0 0 FL
1543 1543 Flock Group, Inc. DBA Flock Safety Wellington FL 2024-06-11 award 129550.0 Authorization to award a Sole Source contract to Flock Group, Inc. DBA Flock Safety for the Purchase, Delivery, Installation, and Annual Maintenance of License Plate Recognition (LPR) Cameras and Software in the amount of approximately $129,550.00. https://legistar.granicus.com/Wellington/meetings/2024/6/3620_M_Village_Council__24-06-11_Action_Summary.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/wellington/2024/#m149596 flock estimated 2 0 0 FL

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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);