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 = "TN" and vendor = "Flock" 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
1620 1620 Flock Crossville TN 2022-12-13 approve purchase 28500.0 Crossville Police Department received a quote from Flock for a License Plate Reader (LPR) camera system in the amount of $28,500. https://legistar.granicus.com/Crossville/meetings/2022/12/2069_M_City_Council_22-12-13_Minutes.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/crossvilletn/2022/#m269599 flock stated 1 0 0 TN
2315 2315 Flock Jacksboro TN 2024-08-26 removed from budget 24000.0 Alderman Robinson made a motion to approve Ordinance O-11-2024 with the following budget changes made: $24,000 removed from the Police Department's Budget for the FLOCK camera program; https://www.cityofjacksboro.com/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_08262024-478 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/cityofjacksboro.com/2024/#m1577646 flock stated 1 0 0 TN
2281 2281 Flock Piperton TN 2024-07-16 accept donation 13700.0 He previously donated last year for the Watson recording system and this year he is wanting to donate for four Flock cameras, the total is $13,700.00. https://www.pipertontn.com/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_07162024-353 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/pipertontn.com/2024/#m1529371 flock stated 1 0 0 TN
1811 1811 Flock Blount County TN 2022-10-11 budget increase 5700.0 Resolution No. 22-10-007 Budget Increase General County $5,700. (To appropriate Sex Offender Registry Reserve funds for the installation of Flock LPR cameras at each high school to monitor the presence of those on the sex offender registry in the area.) https://blounttn.legistar1.com/blounttn/meetings/2022/10/1681_M_Budget_Committee_22-10-11_Meeting_Minutes.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/blounttn/2022/#m608449 flock stated 1 1 0 TN
1812 1812 Flock Blount County TN 2022-10-11 budget increase 5700.0 Resolution No. 22-10-007 Budget Increase General County $5,700.00 (To appropriate Sex Offender Registry Reserve funds for the installation of Flock LPR cameras at each high school to monitor the presence of those on the sex offender registry in the area.) https://blounttn.legistar1.com/blounttn/meetings/2022/10/1655_M_Commission_Workshop__22-10-11_Meeting_Minutes.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/blounttn/2022/#m608474 flock stated 2 1 0 TN
1813 1813 Flock Blount County TN 2022-10-20 budget increase 5700.0 Resolution No. 22-10-007 Budget Increase - General County $5,700.00 (To appropriate Sex Offender Registry Reserve funds for the installation of Flock LPR cameras at each high school to monitor the presence of those on the sex offender registry in the area.) https://blounttn.legistar1.com/blounttn/meetings/2022/10/1644_M_Board_of_Commissioners_22-10-20_Meeting_Minutes.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/blounttn/2022/#m608485 flock stated 1 1 0 TN

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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);