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

4 rows where ledger = "sv:forensics:cellebrite" and state = "OK" 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
3222 3222 Cellebrite Oklahoma City OK 2024-05-07 mobile forensics license (purchase) 200000.0 Resolution authorizing the sole source purchase of Cellebrite, Inc. products, hardware, software, support services, maintenance and annual license from Carahsoft Technology Corp. (COKC00096), estimated cost $200,000, May 9, 2024 through May 8, 2025. https://okc.primegov.com/Public/CompiledDocument/64610 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/okc/2024/#m640625 sv:forensics:cellebrite estimated 1 1 0 OK
2987 2987 Cellebrite Pottawatomie County OK 2025-09-09 digital forensics software licenses (approve funds request to purchase) 123180.0 Mrs. Dennis made a motion to approve the funds request to purchase licenses (2) for digital forensics software through Cellebrite in the amount of $123,180.12 for the sheriff's office. https://pottawatomiecook.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=1488,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/pottawatomiecook/2025/#m782571 sv:forensics:cellebrite stated 1 0 0 OK
3228 3228 Cellebrite Oklahoma City OK 2022-10-25 mobile forensics license (amend sole source agreement) 87000.0 Resolution authorizing a change in the cost estimate for Cellebrite, Inc. products, hardware, software, support services, maintenance, and annual license from the sole source agreement with Carahsoft Technology Corp. (SS23­C231005), estimated cost increase of $87,000 to a total of $151,000, for the period ending March 14, 2023. https://okc.primegov.com/Public/CompiledDocument/49763 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/okc/2022/#m639570 sv:forensics:cellebrite estimated 1 1 0 OK
4098 4098 Cellebrite Pottawatomie County OK 2025-02-11 Analysis (approve purchase order) 2200.0 2270, Cellebrite, 2200.00, Analysis; https://pottawatomiecook.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=1439,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/pottawatomiecook/2025/#m782539 sv:forensics:cellebrite stated 1 0 0 OK

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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);