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:lexisnexis", state = "MI" and vendor = "LexisNexis / Accurint" 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
2752 2752 LexisNexis / Accurint New Baltimore MI 2023-11-13 eCitation software (approve quote) 6566.0 Request from Randy Blackburn, Chief of Police for approval of quote from Lexis Nexis in the amount of $6,566.00 for eCitation and quote from Tyler Technologies, inc. for Brazos software in the amount of $2,013.62 — total purchase amount $8,579.62 https://www.cityofnewbaltimore.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_11132023-1086 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/cityofnewbaltimore.org/2023/#m1269146 sv:fusion:lexisnexis stated 1 0 0 MI
2753 2753 LexisNexis / Accurint New Baltimore MI 2023-11-27 eCitation software (approve quote) 6566.0 Motion by Dittrich, second by Eason to approve the request from Randy Blackburn, Chief of Police, for approval of the quote from Lexis Nexis in the amount of $6,566.00 for eCitation software. https://www.cityofnewbaltimore.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_11272023-1092 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/cityofnewbaltimore.org/2023/#m1269145 sv:fusion:lexisnexis stated 1 0 0 MI
3024 3024 LexisNexis / Accurint Saginaw County MI 2025-05-05 online investigative services (approve blanket purchase order) 2500.0 Approve the blanket purchase order with LexisNexis Risk Solutions for $2,500 for FY 2026, pending budget approval, for online investigative services for the Police Department, Investigation Division and Support Services Division. https://saginawmi.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=1076,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/saginawmi/2025/#m746376 sv:fusion:lexisnexis stated 1 0 0 MI
3025 3025 LexisNexis / Accurint Saginaw County MI 2024-06-03 investigative services (approve blanket purchase) 2500.0 Approve the blanket purchase with LexisNexis Risk Solutions for $2,500 for FY 2025 for online investigative services for the Police Department, Investigation Division and Support Services Division for FY 2025. https://saginawmi.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=1031,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/saginawmi/2024/#m746259 sv:fusion:lexisnexis stated 1 0 0 MI
3026 3026 LexisNexis / Accurint Saginaw County MI 2023-06-19 investigative services (approve blanket purchase) 2500.0 Approve the blanket purchase with LexisNexis Risk Solutions for $2,500 for FY 2024 for online investigative services for the Police Department, Investigation Division and Support Services Division. https://saginawmi.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=302,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/saginawmi/2023/#m746144 sv:fusion:lexisnexis 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);