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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13 rows where ledger = "flock" and state = "IA" 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
2224 2224 Flock Group Inc. Plainfield IA 2024-01-08 approve contract 316500.0 Approval of a 5 -year contract with Flock Group Inc., in the amount of $316,500, per the Public Safety Report. https://www.townofplainfield.com/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_01082024-569 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/townofplainfield.com/#m1458700 flock stated 1 0 0 IA
1923 1923 Flock Group Inc Marshalltown IA 2026-02-23 bill payment 147203.0 Flock Group Inc/1 147,203.04 https://marshalltownia.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=8457,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/marshalltownia/#m774520 flock stated 1 0 0 IA
1922 1922 Flock Group Inc Marshalltown IA 2025-03-10 approve payment 96000.0 Flock Group Inc/1 96,000.00 https://marshalltownia.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=2198,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/marshalltownia/2025/#m774419 flock stated 1 0 0 IA
1513 1513 Flock Group Inc. Le Claire IA 2026-07-06 approve purchase and installation 58000.0 Resolution 26-128 Moved by Blair, seconded by Bloom, approving the purchase and installation of License Plate Reader Camera Equipment from Flock Group Inc. in an amount not to exceed $58,000.00, as presented. https://www.leclaireiowa.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_07062026-1475 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/leclaireiowa.gov/#m21495 flock ceiling 1 0 0 IA
2206 2206 Flock Coralville IA 2026-02-24 cancel contract 36000.0 Mullen also asked the council to be forthright and honest about how the $36,000.00 Flock contract was signed without Council knowledge, no legal review and no chance for the public to weigh in. https://www.coralville.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_02242026-1949 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/coralville.org/#m1431860 flock stated 1 0 0 IA
2289 2289 FLOCK SAFETY GROUP INC Camanche IA 2025-08-19 approved payment via consent agenda 23500.0 FLOCK SAFETY GROUP INC LPR CAMERA SYSTEM-FLOCK RENEW 23,500.00 https://www.camancheia.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_08192025-41 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/camancheia.org/2025/#m1543283 flock stated 1 0 0 IA
2290 2290 FLOCK SAFETY GROUP INC Camanche IA 2025-03-18 approve payment 23500.0 FLOCK SAFETY GROUP INC LPR CAMERA SYSTEM-FLOCK RENEW 23,500.00 https://www.camancheia.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_03182025-32 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/camancheia.org/2025/#m1543300 flock stated 2 0 0 IA
2210 2210 Flock Group Incorporated Coralville IA 2025-08-12 budgeted 19000.0 the $19,000.00 that had been budgeted for Flock surveillance https://www.coralville.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_08122025-1884 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/coralville.org/2025/#m1432199 flock stated 1 0 0 IA
2207 2207 Flock Safety Coralville IA 2026-01-20 budget 18000.0 Police Chief Kyle Nicholson reported some budget lines show significant increases while others show no funding because they reflect an effort to consolidate budget lines. The budget proposes hiring one additional police officer, $5,000 in funding for a sergeant assessment center in anticipation of the retirement of Sgt. Sutton in January 2027, putting $100,000 into reserves to replace the TAC10 system which has reached capacity, funding to meet new CJIS security requirements, $18,000 allocated for the second year of the Flock Safety contract, funding a second full-time mental health liaison shared with the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office and North Liberty Police Department, and funding for three new police vehicles and associated equipment as part of the regular fleet replacement cycle. https://www.coralville.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_01202026-1937 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/coralville.org/#m1431863 flock proposed 1 0 0 IA
2208 2208 Flock Safety Coralville IA 2026-01-20 budgeted 18000.0 $18,000 allocated for the second year of the Flock Safety contract https://www.coralville.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01202026-1944 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/coralville.org/#m1431869 flock stated 2 0 0 IA
2209 2209 Flock Group Inc. Coralville IA 2025-10-28 approve payment 18000.0 Approve payment to Flock Group Inc. for Flock Safety 6 LPR, fka Falcon Initial Year of 24 Month Term, 2025 – 2026 (#INV-76989): $18,000.00. https://www.coralville.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_10282025-1915 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/coralville.org/2025/#m1432194 flock stated 1 0 0 IA
2288 2288 Flock Safety Group Inc Camanche IA 2023-02-07 approve payment 17450.0 FLOCK SAFETY GROUP INC LPR CAMERA SYSTEM 17,450.00 https://www.camancheia.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_02072023-78 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/camancheia.org/2023/#m1543272 flock stated 1 0 0 IA
1899 1899 Flock Safety Polk County IA 2022-09-14 approve minor bond projects 8550.0 Flock Safety Cameras Easter Lake and Fort Des Moines Park entrances $8,550 Parks https://polkcountyia.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=5942,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/polkcountyia/2022/#m756976 flock stated 1 0 0 IA

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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);