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

2 rows where ledger = "flock", state = "OH" 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
2142 2142 FLOCK SAFETY Trenton OH 2023-12-07 authorize purchase agreement 88800.0 A MOTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ENTER INTO A PURCHASE AGREEMENT WITH FLOCK SAFETY TO PURCHASE TWO RAVEN© CAMERAS AND FOR A FIVE-YEAR SERVICE AGREEMENT OF THE OPERATING SOFTWARE IN THE AMOUNT OF EIGHTY-EIGHT THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED DOLLARS ($88,800.000) FOR USE BY THE CITY OF TRENTON POLICE DEPARTMENT AND AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO SIGN ALL DOCUMENTS RELATED THERETO. https://www.ci.trenton.oh.us/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_12072023-351 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/ci.trenton.oh.us/2023/#m1350522 flock stated 1 0 0 OH
2140 2140 FLOCK SAFETY Trenton OH 2025-01-16 authorizing the finance director to pay for the annual service agreement 17500.0 A MOTION AUTHORIZING THE FINANCE DIRECTOR TO PAY FOR THE 2025 ANNUAL SERVICE AGREEMENT, PAYABLE TO FLOCK SAFETY, AT A COST OF $17,500, AND FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE FINANCE DIRECTOR TO APPROVE THE THEN AND NOW CERTIFICATE RELATED THERETO IN COMPLIANCE WITH AND PURSUANT TO OHIO REVISED CODE SECTION 5705.41(D) AND CITY OF TRENTON RESOLUTION NO. 12-2022. https://www.ci.trenton.oh.us/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_01162025-444 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/ci.trenton.oh.us/2025/#m1350293 flock stated 1 0 0 OH

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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);