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

5 rows where ledger = "sv:drone:skydio" and state = "FL" 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
3728 3728 Skydio Coconut Creek FL 2025-12-11 Patrol software subscription (purchase) 100000.0 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE USE OF FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT TRUST FUNDS IN THE AMOUNT OF ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS ($100,000) FROM THE FEDERAL FORFEITURE JUSTICE FUND FOR THE PURCHASE OF THE AXON AIR SKYDIO BASIC PATROL SOFTWARE AND SUBSCRIPTION. https://coconutcreek.legistar1.com/coconutcreek/meetings/2025/12/4836_A_City_Commission_25-12-11_Meeting_Agenda.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/coconutcreek/2025/#m262531 sv:drone:skydio stated 1 0 0 FL
3618 3618 Skydio Ocala FL 2025-11-18 two drones (purchase) 49877.0 Utilization of grant funds from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and a TIPS Cooperative Agreement for the purchase of two drones from Skydio, Inc., in an amount not to exceed $49,877 https://ocala.legistar1.com/ocala/meetings/2025/11/3505_M_City_Council_25-11-18_Minutes.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/ocala/2025/#m328792 sv:drone:skydio ceiling 1 0 0 FL
3597 3597 Skydio Pembroke Pines FL 2024-11-06 Skydio X10 drones (purchase) 49085.0 TWO (2) SKYDIO X 10 DRONES AND RELATED ACCESSORIES FROM RMUS, LLC IN THE AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $49,085.47, UTILIZING SOURCEWELL CONTRACT # 011223 "UNMANNED AND REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLE SYSTEMS WITH RELATED TECHNOLOGY AND SERVICES" https://ppines.legistar1.com/ppines/meetings/2024/11/1614_A_City_Commission_24-11-06_Meeting_Agenda.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/ppines/2024/#m337020 sv:drone:skydio ceiling 1 1 0 FL
3506 3506 Skydio Apopka FL 2024-01-17 autonomous police drones (purchase) 40000.0 Authorization to expend Federal Law Enforcement Trust Funds for the purchase of Skydio drones in the amount of $40,000. https://apopkafl.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=2239,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/apopkafl/2024/#m451737 sv:drone:skydio stated 1 0 0 FL
2710 2710 Skydio Panama City FL 2024-07-09 X10 drone and equipment (amend budget) 22560.0 Consideration to approve Budget Amendment Resolution No. 20240709.3 to purchase one Skydio X10 drone and operational equipment by utilizing State Forfeiture funds in the amount of $22,560.00. https://www.pcgov.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_07092024-693 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/pcgov.org/2024/#m1335831 sv:drone:skydio stated 1 1 0 FL

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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);