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

9 rows where ledger = "sv:forensics:cellebrite" and state = "AL" 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
3483 3483 Cellebrite Mobile AL 2026-02-18 mobile device data forensic software (approve purchase order) 247676.0 Approve purchase order to Cellebrite, Inc. for annual renewal of mobile device data forensic software for Gulf Coast Technology Center; $247,676.00 https://mobileal.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=2482,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/mobileal/#m454925 sv:forensics:cellebrite stated 1 0 0 AL
3484 3484 Cellebrite Mobile AL 2026-02-10 mobile device data forensic software (approve purchase order) 247676.0 Approve purchase order to Cellebrite, Inc. for annual renewal of mobile device data forensic software for Gulf Coast Technology Center; $247,676.00 https://mobileal.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=2483,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/mobileal/#m454924 sv:forensics:cellebrite stated 2 0 0 AL
3494 3494 Cellebrite Mobile AL 2023-02-14 forensic software renewal (approve purchase order) 217841.0 Approve purchase order to Cellebrite, Inc. for forensic software renewal for MPD; $217,841.08 https://mobileal.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=677,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/mobileal/2023/#m454769 sv:forensics:cellebrite stated 1 0 0 AL
3496 3496 Cellebrite Mobile AL 2023-02-07 forensic software renewal (approve purchase order) 217841.0 Approve purchase order to Cellebrite, Inc. for forensic software renewal for MPD; $217,841.08 (sponsored by Mayor Stimpson) (submitted by John Paine, Purchasing Dept.) https://mobileal.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=687,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/mobileal/2023/#m454768 sv:forensics:cellebrite stated 1 0 0 AL
3489 3489 Cellebrite Mobile AL 2024-09-03 forensic extraction device subscription (purchase) 44121.0 Approve purchase order to Cellebrite Inc. for subscription for forensic extraction device for MPD; $44,121.00 https://mobileal.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=797,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/mobileal/2024/#m454849 sv:forensics:cellebrite stated 1 0 0 AL
3490 3490 Cellebrite Mobile AL 2024-08-27 forensic extraction device subscription (approve purchase order) 44121.0 Approve purchase order to Cellebrite Inc. for subscription for forensic extraction device for MPD; $44,121.00 https://mobileal.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=786,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/mobileal/2024/#m454848 sv:forensics:cellebrite stated 2 0 0 AL
4080 4080 Cellebrite Lee County AL 2025-11-10 UFED & PA subscription (purchase) 28409.0 Cellebrite USA, Inc. Inseyets Pro UFED & Pro PA Subscription (11/18/25-11/25/26) $28,409.82 Sheriffs Office https://leecoal.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=958,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/leecoal/2025/#m829744 sv:forensics:cellebrite stated 1 1 0 AL
3497 3497 Cellebrite Mobile AL 2023-01-10 forensic product training (approve purchase order) 22274.0 Approve purchase order to Cellebrite, Inc. for forensic product training for MPD; $22,274.10 https://mobileal.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=736,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/mobileal/2023/#m454764 sv:forensics:cellebrite stated 1 0 0 AL
3498 3498 Cellebrite Mobile AL 2023-01-03 forensic product training (approve purchase order) 22274.0 Approve purchase order to Cellebrite, Inc. for forensic product training for MPD; $22,274.10 https://mobileal.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=748,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/mobileal/2023/#m454763 sv:forensics:cellebrite stated 2 0 0 AL

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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);