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:magnet" and state = "NJ" 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
3259 3259 Magnet Forensics Warren County NJ 2026-04-21 forensic software licensing (award purchase order) 81907.0 RESOLUTION AWARDING A PURCHASE ORDER TO MAGNET FORENSICS, LLC FOR SOFTWARE LICENSING, SUPPORT AND MAINTENANCE FOR FORENSIC ANALYZING DIGITAL INVESTIGATIONS FOR THE WARREN COUNTY PROSECUTORS OFFICE IN THE CONTRACT AMOUNT OF $81,907.64 https://warrenconj.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=479,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/warrenconj/#m594592 sv:forensics:magnet stated 1 0 0 NJ
2537 2537 Magnet Forensics Gloucester County NJ 2025-05-14 AXIOM software license (contract) 34760.0 RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING A CONTRACT AND AN END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT WITH MAGNET FORENSICS, LLC FROM JUNE 30, 2025 TO JUNE 29, 2026 FOR A TOTAL AMOUNT OT $34,760.00. https://www.gloucestercountynj.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_05142025-531 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/gloucestercountynj.gov/2025/#m1541426 sv:forensics:magnet stated 1 0 0 NJ
3147 3147 Magnet Forensics Cumberland County NJ 2025-03-25 Graykey license (award contract) 34760.0 Resolution Authorizing the Award of a Non-Fair And Open Contract For Graykey License Premier Unlimited IOS And Android Extractions For Proprietary Software/Hardware (Magnet Forensics, LLC - $34,760) https://cumberlandcountynj.primegov.com/Public/CompiledDocument/624 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/cumberlandcountynj/#m684923 sv:forensics:magnet stated 1 0 0 NJ
2534 2534 Magnet Forensics Gloucester County NJ 2024-05-22 AXIOM software license (authorize contract) 31105.0 RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING A CONTRACT AND AN END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT WITH MAGNET FORENSICS, LLC FROM JUNE 30, 2024 TO JUNE 29, 2025 FOR A TOTAL AMOUNT OF $31,105.00. https://www.gloucestercountynj.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_05222024-447 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/gloucestercountynj.gov/#m1541653 sv:forensics:magnet stated 1 0 0 NJ

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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);