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

11 rows where ledger = "sv:forensics:cellebrite", state = "IL" and vendor = "Cellebrite" 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
3888 3888 Cellebrite Belleville IL 2026-04-14 UFED/forensics software (approve contract) 21770.0 Motion to approve one year contract with Cellebrite Inc. in the amount of $21,770. https://www.belleville.net/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_04142026-3715 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/belleville.net/#m11829 sv:forensics:cellebrite stated 1 0 0 IL
3889 3889 Cellebrite Belleville IL 2026-04-20 mobile forensics software (approve contract) 21770.0 Motion to approve one year contract with Cellebrite Inc. in the amount of $21,770.00 (Police Department) https://www.belleville.net/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_04202026-3720 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/belleville.net/#m11816 sv:forensics:cellebrite stated 1 0 0 IL
2829 2829 Cellebrite Belleville IL 2025-06-02 cell phone data recovery (renew) 17500.0 Motion to renew annual contract with Cellebrite in the amount of $17,500.00 for cell phone data recovery (Police Department). https://www.belleville.net/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_06022025-3505 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/belleville.net/2025/#m1189364 sv:forensics:cellebrite stated 1 0 0 IL
2830 2830 Cellebrite Belleville IL 2025-05-12 mobile forensics software (renew contract) 17500.0 Motion to renew contract with Cellebrite in the amount of $17,500.00, June 4, 2025 through June 3, 2025 https://www.belleville.net/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_05122025-3492 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/belleville.net/2025/#m1188797 sv:forensics:cellebrite stated 1 0 0 IL
2476 2476 Cellebrite Shorewood IL 2026-07-14 software upgrade and licensing renewal (purchase) 16113.0 Consideration for approval of a purchase to Cellebrite in the amount of $16,113.62 for required software upgrade and licensing renewal https://shorewood-il.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=1&clip_id=225 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/gr-shorewood-il/#m2593766 sv:forensics:cellebrite stated 1 0 0 IL
3051 3051 Cellebrite Madison County IL 2026-04-09 digital forensic software renewal (renew) 10740.0 Sheriff/Jail: Cellebrite, Inc. Digital forensic software renewal. Term: 2/28/26 -2/27/27. Amount: $10,740.00 https://madisoncoil.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=1133,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/madisoncoil/#m734876 sv:forensics:cellebrite stated 1 0 0 IL
3052 3052 Cellebrite Madison County IL 2026-04-06 digital forensic software (renew) 10740.0 a. Item: Cellebrite Digital Forensic Software RENEWAL Vendor: Cellebrite, Inc. Amount: $10,740.00 Term: One Year (2/28/2026--2/27/2027) https://madisoncoil.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=1119,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/madisoncoil/#m734870 sv:forensics:cellebrite stated 1 0 0 IL
3328 3328 Cellebrite Rock Island County IL 2026-06-22 investigative tool renewal (purchase) 10740.0 Report from the Police Department requesting authorization to purchase the renewal of an investigative tool from Cellebrite Inc. in the amount of $10,740. https://rockislandil.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=1995,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/rockislandil/#m562427 sv:forensics:cellebrite stated 1 0 0 IL
3329 3329 Cellebrite Rock Island County IL 2026-05-11 investigative tool (purchase renewal) 10740.0 Report from the Police Department requesting authorization to purchase the renewal of an investigative tool from Cellebrite Inc. in the amount of $10,740.00 https://rockislandil.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=1899,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/rockislandil/#m562400 sv:forensics:cellebrite stated 1 0 0 IL
2827 2827 Cellebrite Belleville IL 2024-04-15 cell phone data recovery (renew) 9900.0 Motion to renew annual contract with Cellebrite in the amount of $9,900.00 for cell phone data recovery — Police Department https://www.belleville.net/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_04152024-3227 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/belleville.net/#m1189672 sv:forensics:cellebrite stated 1 0 0 IL
4045 4045 Cellebrite Oak Forest IL 2025-07-22 UFED subscription (purchase) 7350.0 CELLEBRITE INC Q454461-1 04/22/25 7,350.00 01-03-5404 COMPUTER MAINTENANCE UFED 4pc Ultimate Subscription 3868 https://www.oak-forest.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07222025-2165 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/oak-forest.org/2025/#m1209357 sv:forensics:cellebrite stated 1 0 0 IL

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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);