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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9 rows where ledger = "sv:face:idemia" and state = "SD" 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
2920 2920 Idemia Minnehaha County SD 2025-10-07 biometric systems (lease-rental agreement and maintenance contracts) 3199.0 IDEMIA IDENTITY & SE Lease-Rental Agreement $3199, IDEMIA IDENTITY & SE Maintenance Contracts $3199 https://minnehahacosd.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=1681,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/minnehahacosd/2025/#m825296 sv:face:idemia stated 1 0 0 SD
2946 2946 Idemia Lincoln County SD 2025-10-14 Livescan maintenance & support (purchase) 3199.0 Idemia Identity & Security Usa LLC, Livescan Maintenance & Support Inv183596, $3,199.00 https://lincolncosd.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=2638,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/lincolncosd/2025/#m806062 sv:face:idemia stated 1 0 0 SD
2949 2949 Idemia Lincoln County SD 2024-02-13 livescan maintenance & support (purchase) 2853.0 Idemia Identity & Security Usa Llc, Livescan Maintenance & Support $2,853.00 https://lincolncosd.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=1945,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/lincolncosd/2024/#m805942 sv:face:idemia stated 1 0 0 SD
2919 2919 Idemia Minnehaha County SD 2026-03-17 Maintenance Contracts (approve) 2728.0 IDEMIA IDENTITY & SE Maintenance Contracts $2728 https://minnehahacosd.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=1842,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/minnehahacosd/#m825323 sv:face:idemia stated 1 0 0 SD
2580 2580 Idemia Brookings County SD 2026-02-03 fingerprint machine (approve claim) 2727.0 Idemia Identity & Security, Fingerprint Machine, $2,727.00 https://www.brookingscountysd.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_02032026-1236 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/brookingscountysd.gov/#m1469126 sv:face:idemia stated 1 0 0 SD
2921 2921 Idemia Minnehaha County SD 2025-03-04 Maintenance Contracts (approve contract) 2598.0 IDEMIA IDENTITY & SE Maintenance Contracts $2598 https://minnehahacosd.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=1418,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/minnehahacosd/2025/#m825239 sv:face:idemia stated 1 0 0 SD
2923 2923 Idemia Minnehaha County SD 2024-01-16 lease-rental agreement (approve) 2573.0 IDEMIA IDENTITY & SE Lease-Rental Agreement $2573 https://minnehahacosd.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=907,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/minnehahacosd/2024/#m825144 sv:face:idemia stated 1 0 0 SD
2922 2922 Idemia Minnehaha County SD 2024-02-20 Maintenance Contracts (approve contract) 2474.0 IDEMIA IDENTITY & SE Maintenance Contracts $2474 https://minnehahacosd.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=943,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/minnehahacosd/2024/#m825150 sv:face:idemia stated 1 0 0 SD
2579 2579 Idemia Brookings County SD 2025-02-18 fingerprint machine (purchase) 1981.0 Idemia Identity & Security USA LLC, Fingerprint Machine, $1,981.00 https://www.brookingscountysd.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_02182025-1135 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/brookingscountysd.gov/2025/#m1469414 sv:face:idemia stated 1 0 0 SD

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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);