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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5 rows where ledger = "flock" and vendor = "Flock Camera System" 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
1545 1545 Flock Camera System Bishop CA 2025-07-28 approve the adjusted not to exceed amount on the prepayment of the five-year Flock Camera System 200101.0 City Council to approve the adjusted not to exceed amount on the prepayment of the five-year Flock Camera System from $187,500.00 to $200,101.00. https://bishop-ca.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=1&clip_id=1664 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/gr-bishop-ca/2025/#m150726 flock ceiling 1 0 0 CA
1959 1959 Flock Camera System Lenoir County NC 2025-05-22 budget 36500.0 Police Patrol 1 Flock Camera System 36,500.00 https://lenoirnc.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=591,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/lenoirnc/2025/#m819632 flock stated 1 1 0 NC
1982 1982 Flock Camera System Lapeer MI 2025-10-06 postpone 21900.0 Approve the purchase of the Flock Camera System for the amount not to exceed $21,900 for the first year of the contract and the annual cost of $18,000 for the following year, and authorize the Chief of Police to sign the necessary documents. https://www.ci.lapeer.mi.us/CC%20Minutes/10-06-2025%20Regular.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/rz-ci.lapeer.mi.us/2025/#m843729 flock ceiling 1 0 0 MI
1989 1989 Flock Camera System Mequon WI 2022-10-06 budget 16500.0 Flock Camera System 1.00 16,500.00 16,500.00 https://mequonwi.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=135,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/mequonwi/2022/#m851344 flock stated 1 0 0 WI
2287 2287 Flock Camera System Clear Lake Shores TX 2025-08-19 budgeted 5000.0 The Flock Camera System grant was approved for approximately $30,000. The City will be responsible for about $5,000. https://www.clearlakeshores-tx.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_08192025-702 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/clearlakeshores-tx.gov/2025/#m1535972 flock estimated 1 0 0 TX

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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);