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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3 rows where ledger = "sv:camera:avigilon" and state = "CA" 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
2582 2582 Avigilon Sanger CA 2025-06-10 surveillance cameras (approve sole source purchase agreement) 40000.0 Approved a Sole Source Purchase Agreement (Purchase Order) with Surveillance Integration of Fresno for new surveillance camera hardware for the Avigilon Camera System at JFK Park, Cesar Chavez Park, Faller Park, and Jenni Park in an amount not to exceed $40,000; https://www.ci.sanger.ca.us/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_06102025-791 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/ci.sanger.ca.us/2025/#m1461327 sv:camera:avigilon ceiling 1 0 0 CA
2584 2584 Avigilon Sanger CA 2025-06-03 surveillance cameras (approve sole source purchase agreement) 40000.0 Find that the approval of a Sole Source Purchase Agreement with Surveillance Integration of Fresno for new surveillance camera hardware for the Avigilon Camera System at JFK Park, Cesar Chavez Park, Faller Park, and Jenni Park, in an amount not to exceed $40,000 is an enhancement of public safety in the City of Sanger; https://www.ci.sanger.ca.us/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_06032025-790 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/ci.sanger.ca.us/2025/#m1461284 sv:camera:avigilon ceiling 1 0 0 CA
2583 2583 Avigilon Sanger CA 2025-05-06 access control panel (purchase) 5625.0 12/24V 16-DOOR ACCESS CONTROL PANEL The Core Series Smart Hub is a modular access control unit that supports sixteen Avigilon readers and sixteen doors. The Core Series Smart Hub features the Access Control Core that securely makes all entry decisions and is configured via Bluetooth using the Admin App. $5,625.00 https://www.ci.sanger.ca.us/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_05062025-785 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/ci.sanger.ca.us/2025/#m1461285 sv:camera:avigilon stated 1 0 0 CA

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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);