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

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  • sv:forensics:grayshift · 4 ✖
Link rowid vendor city state spend_date product amount ▲ quote source_document mytown_record ledger amount_type dup_rank geo_suspect anomaly state_norm
2780 2780 Grayshift / GrayKey Sterling Heights MI 2025-11-05 GrayKey software subscription (purchase) 38660.0 RESOLVED , to: 1. Purchase the GrayKey software technology subscription from Magnet Forensics, LLC, 931 Monroe Drive NE, Suite A102 -340, Atlanta, GA 30308, from November 21, 2025, through November 20, 2028, at a total cost of $38,660; https://www.sterlingheights.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_11052025-2755 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/sterlingheights.gov/2025/#m1237883 sv:forensics:grayshift stated 1 0 0 MI
2783 2783 Grayshift / GrayKey Sterling Heights MI 2023-11-07 Graykey software subscription (purchase) 31115.0 Purchase a two-year software subscription to Graykey technology at the Essentials level, including a twenty (20) Advanced Actions expansion pack, from Magnet Forensics, Inc., 2220 University Ave East, Suite 200. Waterloo, Ontario N2K 0A8, at a cumulative cost of $31,115; https://www.sterlingheights.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_11072023-2575 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/sterlingheights.gov/#m1237823 sv:forensics:grayshift stated 1 0 0 MI
2635 2635 Grayshift / GrayKey Taylor MI 2025-03-04 forensic Graykey system (purchase) 3422.0 To approve Dell, MI Deal State bid, for the purchase of a high performance computer to operate the forensic Graykey system, for an amount of $3,422. Funded through Police IT Fund. https://www.cityoftaylor.com/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_03042025-770 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/cityoftaylor.com/2025/#m1393292 sv:forensics:grayshift stated 1 0 0 MI
2636 2636 Grayshift / GrayKey Taylor MI 2025-03-18 forensic Graykey system (purchase) 3422.0 To approve Dell, MI Deal State bid, for the purchase of a high performance computer to operate the forensic Graykey system, for an amount of $3,422. https://www.cityoftaylor.com/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_03182025-771 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/cityoftaylor.com/2025/#m1393291 sv:forensics:grayshift stated 1 0 0 MI

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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);