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 = "sv:face:idemia", state = "NE" and vendor = "Idemia" sorted by amount descending

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  • Idemia · 6 ✖

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  • sv:face:idemia · 6 ✖
Link rowid vendor city state spend_date product amount ▲ quote source_document mytown_record ledger amount_type dup_rank geo_suspect anomaly state_norm
2466 2466 Idemia Cass County NE 2026-06-30 biometric services (claims payment) 9850.0 Idemia Identity & Security USA LLC $9,850.00 (srv) https://www.casscountyne.gov/utility/openPDF/cacone/6.30.26_Minutes-PendingWeb.pdf?alt=media https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/mw-ne-cass-county/#m6332870 sv:face:idemia stated 1 0 0 NE
2467 2467 Idemia Cass County NE 2026-06-30 biometric services (claims payment) 9850.0 Idemia Identity & Security USA LLC $9,850.00 (srv) https://www.casscountyne.gov/utility/openPDF/cacone/6.30.26_Minutes-PendingWeb.pdf?alt=media https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/mw-ne-cass-county/#m6328310 sv:face:idemia stated 2 0 0 NE
2462 2462 Idemia Cass County NE 2023-08-01 biometric services (purchase) 3257.0 IDEMIA Identity & Security $3,257.00 (Srv) https://www.casscountyne.gov/utility/openPDF/cacone/8.1.23_Minutes-Approved.pdf?alt=media https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/mw-ne-cass-county/2023/#m6332947 sv:face:idemia stated 1 0 0 NE
2465 2465 Idemia Cass County NE 2026-04-21 biometrics services (approve claims) 3257.0 Idemia Identity & Security USA LLC $3,257.00 (srv) https://www.casscountyne.gov/utility/openPDF/cacone/4.21.26_Minutes-PendingWeb.pdf?alt=media https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/mw-ne-cass-county/#m6332873 sv:face:idemia stated 1 0 0 NE
2463 2463 Idemia Cass County NE 2025-12-02 biometric services (claims payment) 2500.0 Idemia Identity Security USA LLC $2,500.00 (srv) https://www.casscountyne.gov/utility/openPDF/cacone/12.2.25_Minutes-PendingWeb.pdf?alt=media https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/mw-ne-cass-county/#m6332883 sv:face:idemia stated 1 0 0 NE
2464 2464 Idemia Cass County NE 2025-12-16 biometrics services (approve claim) 2500.0 Idemia Identity Security USA LLC $2,500.00 (srv) https://www.casscountyne.gov/utility/openPDF/cacone/12.16.25_Minutes-PendingWeb.pdf?alt=media https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/mw-ne-cass-county/#m6332882 sv:face:idemia stated 2 0 0 NE

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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);