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:forensics:cellebrite" and state = "GA" 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
2459 2459 Cellebrite Griffin GA 2025-10-30 digital forensics subscription (renew contract) 39627.0 Consider a contract with Cellebrite to renew a subscription of Inseyets Pro to extract digital forensics from smartphones, and associated training for one IT employee in the amount of $39,627.50. https://cityofgriffin.granicus.com/MinutesViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=224 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/gr-cityofgriffin/2025/#m6354882 sv:forensics:cellebrite stated 1 0 0 GA
2701 2701 Cellebrite College Park GA 2026-02-02 mobile forensics software (approve contract) 15567.0 Consideration of and action on a request to approve the annual contract for Cellebrite, Inc., in the amount of $15,567.02. https://www.collegeparkga.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02022026-424 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/collegeparkga.gov/#m1347443 sv:forensics:cellebrite stated 1 0 0 GA
2702 2702 Cellebrite College Park GA 2026-02-02 mobile forensics contract (approve contract) 15567.0 Consideration of and action on a request to approve the annual contract for Cellebrite, Inc., in the amount of $15,567.02. https://www.collegeparkga.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_02022026-423 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/collegeparkga.gov/#m1347442 sv:forensics:cellebrite stated 2 0 0 GA
3406 3406 Cellebrite McDonough GA 2025-09-04 UFED maintenance renewal (renew) 10270.0 Request for to pay the annual maintenance renewal Cellebrite invoice for $10,270.00. https://mcdonoughga.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=2136,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/mcdonoughga/2025/#m531002 sv:forensics:cellebrite stated 1 0 0 GA
3342 3342 Cellebrite Floyd County GA 2025-03-25 UFED forensics renewal (renew) 10185.0 Consider request from Police Department to approve funding to renew Cellebrite Technology Service for the Criminal Investigations Division in the amount of $10,185.00 using funds from the Police Department Data Processing account, https://floydcountyga.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=1&clip_id=107 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/gr-floydcountyga/#m557015 sv:forensics:cellebrite stated 1 0 0 GA

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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);