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

3 rows where ledger = "sv:fusion:lexisnexis", state = "OH" and vendor = "LexisNexis / Accurint" sorted by amount descending

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  • sv:fusion:lexisnexis · 3 ✖
Link rowid vendor city state spend_date product amount ▲ quote source_document mytown_record ledger amount_type dup_rank geo_suspect anomaly state_norm
3553 3553 LexisNexis / Accurint Toledo OH 2021-05-11 crime center subscription (approve contract) 53980.0 Authorizing the Mayor to enter into a Accurint Virtual Crime Center subscription agreement for a term of three years; authorizing the General Fund expenditure in an amount not to exceed $53,980.71 for the first year, $55,600.14 for the second year and $57,268.14 for the third year subject to future appropriations; waiving the competitive bidding requirements of TMC Chapter 187; and declaring an emergency. https://legistar2.granicus.com/toledo/meetings/2021/5/1982_A_City_Council_21-05-11_Formal_Agenda.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/toledo/2021/#m359906 sv:fusion:lexisnexis ceiling 1 0 0 OH
3825 3825 LexisNexis / Accurint Columbus OH 2017-06-05 Coplogic Desk Officer Reporting System maintenance (enter into contract) 8821.0 To authorize the Director of the Department of Technology to enter into a contract for maintenance and support of the Coplogic Desk Officer Reporting System from LexisNexis Risk Solutions in accordance with the sole source provisions of the Columbus City Code; and to authorize the expenditure of $8,821.48 from the Department of Technology, Information Services Operating Fund. ($8,821.48) http://legistar3.granicus.com/Columbus/meetings/2017/6/5540_M_Columbus_City_Council_17-06-05_Minutes_-_Final.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/columbus/#m144583 sv:fusion:lexisnexis stated 1 0 0 OH
2655 2655 LexisNexis / Accurint Stow OH 2025-12-22 Accurint subscription (approve contract) 6600.0 INCOME TAX LEXISNEXIS RISK SOLUTIONS FL INC ACCURINT FOR GOVERNMENT SUBSCRIPTION BEST PRACTICAL SOURCE - AVAIL MONTHLY FEE FOR 5 USERS $6,600.00 https://www.stowohio.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_12222025-855 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/stowohio.gov/2025/#m1390630 sv:fusion:lexisnexis stated 1 0 0 OH

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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);