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:grayshift" and state = "IL" sorted by amount descending

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  • sv:forensics:grayshift · 5 ✖
Link rowid vendor city state spend_date product amount ▲ quote source_document mytown_record ledger amount_type dup_rank geo_suspect anomaly state_norm
2607 2607 Grayshift / GrayKey Carpentersville IL 2026-04-07 Graykey license & hardware (authorize purchase) 28000.0 Approval of a Resolution Authorizing the Purchase of the Magnet Forensics Graykey Advanced License, Preserve, and Axiom Premier Platform, Including Required Hardware, for a Total Cost of $28,000.00 https://www.carpentersvilleil.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_04072026-1003 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/carpentersvilleil.gov/#m1423970 sv:forensics:grayshift stated 1 0 0 IL
2616 2616 Grayshift / GrayKey Carpentersville IL 2026-04-07 forensic extraction license (authorize purchase) 28000.0 Approval of a Resolution Authorizing the Purchase of the Magnet Forensics Graykey Advanced License, Preserve, and Axiom Premier Platform, Including Required Hardware, for a Total Cost of $28,000.00 https://www.cville.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_04072026-1003 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/cville.org/#m1406273 sv:forensics:grayshift stated 2 1 0 IL
3631 3631 Grayshift / GrayKey Naperville IL 2024-02-20 Graykey Premier License Renewal (renew) 27195.0 Approve the award of Change Order #2 to Contract 22-328-0.02, Graykey Premier License Renewal, to Magnet Forensic for an amount not to exceed $27,195, a total award of $71,748.52, and for an additional six months https://naperville.legistar1.com/naperville/meetings/2024/2/3096_M_City_Council_24-02-20_Meeting_Minutes.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/naperville/2024/#m325379 sv:forensics:grayshift ceiling 1 0 0 IL
3053 3053 Grayshift / GrayKey Rock Island County IL 2026-02-09 GrayKey (purchase) 13345.0 Report from the Police Department regarding a purchase in the amount of $13,345.00 from Magnet Forensics for an investigative tool known as GrayKey. https://rockislandil.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=1746,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/rockislandil/#m734648 sv:forensics:grayshift stated 1 0 0 IL
2833 2833 Grayshift / GrayKey Edwardsville IL 2024-03-14 iPhone/Android extraction (budget) 12000.0 • Gray Key - $12,000 https://www.cityofedwardsville.com/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03142024-3314 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/cityofedwardsville.com/2024/#m1144696 sv:forensics:grayshift 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);