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

13 rows where ledger = "sv:forensics:cellebrite", state = "IA" and vendor = "Cellebrite" sorted by amount descending

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  • sv:forensics:cellebrite · 13 ✖
Link rowid vendor city state spend_date product amount ▲ quote source_document mytown_record ledger amount_type dup_rank geo_suspect anomaly state_norm
3076 3076 Cellebrite Davenport IA 2025-06-25 Inseyets software subscription (renew) 55720.0 Motion approving a payment of $55,720 to Cellebrite, Inc of Vienna, Virginia for the annual renewal of Inseyets software subscription. [All Wards] https://davenportia.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=6580,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/davenportia/2025/#m708376 sv:forensics:cellebrite stated 1 0 0 IA
3077 3077 Cellebrite Davenport IA 2025-06-18 Inseyets software subscription (renew) 55720.0 Motion approving a payment of $55,720 to Cellebrite, Inc of Vienna, Virginia for the annual renewal of Inseyets software subscription. [All Wards] https://davenportia.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=6121,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/davenportia/2025/#m708370 sv:forensics:cellebrite stated 2 0 0 IA
3082 3082 Cellebrite Davenport IA 2024-01-03 digital forensic software (approve contract) 34500.0 Cellebrite USA Corp | digital forensic software | Amount: $34,500 https://davenportia.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=5054,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/davenportia/2024/#m708015 sv:forensics:cellebrite stated 1 0 0 IA
3079 3079 Cellebrite Davenport IA 2024-07-02 software maintenance/support (purchase) 31070.0 Cellebrite USA Corp | software maintenance/support | Amount: $31,070.40 https://davenportia.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=5272,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/davenportia/2024/#m708128 sv:forensics:cellebrite stated 1 0 0 IA
3085 3085 Cellebrite Davenport IA 2023-07-05 digital forensic software (purchase) 10510.0 Cellebrite USA Corp | digital forensic software | Amount: $10,510 https://davenportia.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=3746,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/davenportia/2023/#m707921 sv:forensics:cellebrite stated 1 0 0 IA
4057 4057 Cellebrite Fort Dodge IA 2025-07-28 mobile forensics (purchase) 10345.0 Cellebrite, Inc, Supply 10,345.00 https://fortdodgeiowa.civicweb.net/document/288459/City%20Council%20-%2028%20Jul%202025.pdf?handle=81E2BC1EB5524A6AA47E0FCC949E0F1C https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/fortdodgeiowa/2025/#m991044 sv:forensics:cellebrite stated 1 0 0 IA
4020 4020 Cellebrite Waukee IA 2025-07-21 device extraction software (purchase) 10240.0 CELLEBRITE INC DEVICE EXTRACTION SOFTWARE 10,240.00 https://www.waukee.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_07212025-1121 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/waukee.org/2025/#m1365207 sv:forensics:cellebrite stated 1 0 0 IA
4111 4111 Cellebrite Marshalltown IA 2026-02-23 mobile forensics software (contract) 8820.0 Cellebrite.Inc/1 8,820.00 https://marshalltownia.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=8457,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/marshalltownia/#m774520 sv:forensics:cellebrite stated 1 0 0 IA
4128 4128 Cellebrite Marshalltown IA 2025-01-27 mobile forensics software (approve contract) 8400.0 Cellebrite.Inc/1 8,400.00 https://marshalltownia.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=2174,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/marshalltownia/2025/#m774410 sv:forensics:cellebrite stated 1 0 0 IA
4130 4130 Cellebrite Marshalltown IA 2024-12-20 mobile forensics (purchase) 8400.0 Cellebrite.Inc/1 8,400.00 https://marshalltownia.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=2157,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/marshalltownia/2024/#m774403 sv:forensics:cellebrite stated 2 0 0 IA
3232 3232 Cellebrite Davenport IA 2026-06-24 UFED/forensics software (purchase) 6300.0 CELLEBRITE INC. PCARD ACTIVITY -$6,300.00 https://davenportia.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=7118,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/davenportia/#m630382 sv:forensics:cellebrite stated 1 0 0 IA
4241 4241 Cellebrite Indianola IA 2021-03-01 mobile forensics contract (approve contract) 4300.0 CELLEBRITE CONTRACT 02/18/2021 4,300.00 POLICE FUND https://indianolaia.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=296,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/indianolaia/2021/#m462650 sv:forensics:cellebrite stated 1 0 0 IA
3967 3967 Cellebrite Knoxville IA 2025-09-15 Cellebrite license (approve) 1127.0 MARION COUNTY SHERIFF 25-26 CELLEBRITE LICENSE 1,127.78 https://www.knoxvilleia.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_09152025-500 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/knoxvilleia.gov/2025/#m1560580 sv:forensics:cellebrite stated 1 0 0 IA

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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);