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:fusion:fusus" and state = "GA" 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
2953 2953 Fusus (Axon) Clarkston GA 2023-11-28 real-time crime center (approve contract) 386500.0 The total overall cost for the contracts with Fusus and Compass Security Solutions will be $386,500. https://clarkstonga.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=1459,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/clarkstonga/2023/#m801793 sv:fusion:fusus stated 1 0 0 GA
2703 2703 Fusus (Axon) College Park GA 2026-02-16 real-time crime center platform (approve contract) 150000.0 Consideration of and action on a request to approve the annual public safety services contract with Fusus/Axon Enterprise Incorporation in the amount of $150,000. https://www.collegeparkga.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02162026-428 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/collegeparkga.gov/#m1347441 sv:fusion:fusus stated 1 0 0 GA
2704 2704 Fusus (Axon) College Park GA 2026-02-16 real-time crime center (approve contract) 150000.0 Consideration of and action on a request to approve the annual public safety services contract with Fusus/Axon Enterprise Incorporation in the amount of $150,000. https://www.collegeparkga.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_02162026-427 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/collegeparkga.gov/#m1347440 sv:fusion:fusus stated 2 0 0 GA
2913 2913 Fusus (Axon) Henry County GA 2024-10-15 Fusus ONE real-time crime center (purchase) 120000.0 Resolution approving an agreement between Axon Enterprises, Inc. and the Henry County Police Department for the purchase of Fusus ONE Enterprise Level Real Time Crime Center software in the amount of $120,000.00 the first year, utilizing RedSpeed funds and with an option to renew in the second year at $135,000.00 and in the third year at $150,000.00, utilizing Police SSD Funds allocated for this purpose. https://henrycoga.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=1992,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/henrycoga/2024/#m828330 sv:fusion:fusus stated 1 0 0 GA

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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);