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" and vendor = "FLOCK GROUP, INC." 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
1725 1725 FLOCK GROUP, INC. Midland TX 2026-02-10 approve contract 451000.0 RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE EXECUTION OF A SOLE-SOURCE, 24-MONTH SUBSCRIPTION CONTRACT WITH FLOCK GROUP, INC. FOR A LICENSE PLATE RECOGNITION CAMERA SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SOFTWARE AT A TOTAL COST OF $451,000.00 https://midlandtx.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=3138,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/midlandtx/#m475494 flock stated 1 0 0 TX
1663 1663 FLOCK GROUP, INC. Pembroke Pines FL 2024-05-01 approve 342400.0 MOTION TO APPROVE THE PIGGY-BACK SERVICE AGREEMENT WITH FLOCK GROUP, INC. FOR THE LEASING/USE OF SIXTY-FOUR (64) INFRASTRUCTURE-FREE (SOLAR POWER + LTE), LICENSE PLATE RECOGNITION READERS WITH VEHICLE FINGERPRINT TECHNOLOGY UTILIZING THE PRICING FROM THE CITY OF CORAL SPRINGS, REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL NO. 22-C-211 FOR A TOTAL AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $342,400 PURSUANT TO SECTION 35.18(C)(5) OF THE CITY’S CODE OF ORDINANCES. https://ppines.legistar1.com/ppines/meetings/2024/5/1608_M_City_Commission_24-05-01_Meeting_Minutes.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/ppines/2024/#m336990 flock ceiling 1 1 0 FL
2106 2106 FLOCK GROUP, INC. Vernon Hills IL 2023-12-12 approval 137500.0 APPROVAL AND PASSAGE OF ORDINANCE 2023-118 AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING APPROVAL TO WAIVE THE COMPETITIVE BIDDING PROCESS AND APPROVING THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS BETWEEN THE VILLAGE OF VERNON HILLS AND FLOCK GROUP, INC. FOR THE MAINTENANCE AND USE OF ELEVEN (11) AUTOMATIC LICENSE PLATE READERS AND THE TOTAL FIVE YEAR EXPENDITURE OF $137,500.00 https://www.vernonhills.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_12122023-1105 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/vernonhills.org/2023/#m1298949 flock stated 1 0 0 IL
1964 1964 FLOCK GROUP, INC. Byram MS 2023-11-09 approve payment 40100.0 02671 FLOCK GROUP, INC. DKTO035341 40,100.00 https://byramms.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=303,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/byramms/2023/#m825749 flock stated 1 0 0 MS
1919 1919 FLOCK GROUP, INC. Monroe County MI 2023-09-19 payment 7400.0 FLOCK GROUP, INC. 000000060440 INV-17379 5243468 09/06/23 7400.00 0.00 7400.00 https://monroecomi.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=264,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/monroecomi/2023/#m763712 flock stated 1 0 0 MI
1920 1920 FLOCK GROUP, INC. Monroe County MI 2023-11-21 payment 6000.0 000000060440 FLOCK GROUP, INC. 6000.00 1 https://monroecomi.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=272,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/monroecomi/2023/#m763733 flock stated 1 0 0 MI

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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);