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:fusion:fusus", state = "IL" and vendor = "Fusus (Axon)" 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
3838 3838 Fusus (Axon) Aurora IL 2023-09-19 real-time crime center (award contract) 666328.0 A Resolution authorizing the Director of Purchasing to purchase five-year subscription for a Real-Time Crime Center analytics solution from Fusus, Peachtree Corners, GA for a total award of $666,328.00 with a 10% contingency. https://legistar1.granicus.com/aurora-il/meetings/2023/9/3986_M_Committee_of_the_Whole_23-09-19_Meeting_Minutes.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/aurora-il/2023/#m74587 sv:fusion:fusus stated 1 0 0 IL
3841 3841 Fusus (Axon) Aurora IL 2023-09-26 real-time crime center analytics (purchase) 666328.0 A Resolution authorizing the Director of Purchasing to purchase five-year subscription for a Real-Time Crime Center analytics solution from Fusus, Peachtree Corners, GA for a total award of $666,328.00 with a 10% contingency. https://legistar1.granicus.com/aurora-il/meetings/2023/9/4009_M_City_Council_23-09-26_Meeting_Minutes.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/aurora-il/2023/#m74565 sv:fusion:fusus stated 2 0 0 IL
3842 3842 Fusus (Axon) Aurora IL 2023-09-11 real-time crime center analytics (award bid) 666328.0 A Resolution authorizing the Director of Purchasing to purchase five-year subscription for a Real-Time Crime Center analytics solution from Fusus, Peachtree Corners, GA for a total award of $666,328.00 with a 10% contingency. https://legistar1.granicus.com/aurora-il/meetings/2023/9/4156_M_Infrastructure_and_Technology_Committee_23-09-11_Meeting_Minutes.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/aurora-il/2023/#m74466 sv:fusion:fusus stated 3 0 0 IL
2834 2834 Fusus (Axon) Wheaton IL 2023-06-19 camera integration software (execute contract) 150000.0 A Resolution Authorizing the Execution of Agreement No. 383 with Fusus for a One-Year Lease of Camera Integration Software and Core Network Appliances for a Total Amount Not to Exceed $150,000 https://www.wheaton.il.us/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_06192023-2318 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/wheaton.il.us/2023/#m1137292 sv:fusion:fusus ceiling 1 0 0 IL
2489 2489 Fusus (Axon) Burbank IL 2024-03-27 Real Time Crime Center Platform (secured grant funding) 50000.0 $50,000 for the Fusus Real Time Crime Center Platform https://www.burbankil.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_03272024-59 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/burbankil.gov/#m1596079 sv:fusion:fusus 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);