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.

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6 rows where ledger = "sv:intercept:l3harris" and state = "IL" 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
3848 3848 L3Harris Aurora IL 2025-08-05 communications tower (authorize agreement) 481166.0 25-0284 A Resolution authorizing the Director of Purchasing to enter into an agreement with L3Harris of Melbourne, FL to construct a communications tower for a total cost of $481,166.48. https://legistar1.granicus.com/aurora-il/meetings/2025/8/4507_M_Committee_of_the_Whole_25-08-05_Meeting_Minutes.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/aurora-il/2025/#m74213 sv:intercept:l3harris stated 1 0 0 IL
3850 3850 L3Harris Aurora IL 2025-12-16 radio computer consoles (purchase) 457821.0 A Resolution authorizing the Director of Purchasing to enter into an agreement with L3Harris of Melbourne, FL to purchase new radio computer consoles for $457,821.48. https://legistar1.granicus.com/aurora-il/meetings/2025/12/4516_M_Committee_of_the_Whole_25-12-16_Meeting_Minutes.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/aurora-il/2025/#m74204 sv:intercept:l3harris stated 1 0 0 IL
4353 4353 L3Harris Aurora IL 2025-12-16 radio computer consoles (enter into an agreement) 457821.0 A Resolution authorizing the Director of Purchasing to enter into an agreement with L3Harris of Melbourne, FL to purchase new radio computer consoles for $457,821.48. https://legistar1.granicus.com/aurora-il/meetings/2025/12/4741_M_City_Council_25-12-16_Meeting_Minutes.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/aurora-il/2025/#m74041 sv:intercept:l3harris stated 2 0 0 IL
3854 3854 L3Harris Aurora IL 2026-03-18 system maintenance (amend) 284189.0 A Resolution authorizing the Director of Purchasing to purchase services for Amendment 5 of the System Maintenance Agreement with L3Harris, Melbourne, FL for $284,189. https://legistar1.granicus.com/aurora-il/meetings/2026/3/4752_M_Committee_of_the_Whole_26-03-18_Meeting_Minutes.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/aurora-il/#m74033 sv:intercept:l3harris stated 1 0 0 IL
3855 3855 L3Harris Aurora IL 2026-03-24 system maintenance (amend) 284189.0 A Resolution authorizing the Director of Purchasing to purchase services for Amendment 5 of the System Maintenance Agreement with L3Harris, Melbourne, FL for $284,189. https://legistar1.granicus.com/aurora-il/meetings/2026/3/4777_M_City_Council_26-03-24_Meeting_Minutes.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/aurora-il/#m74019 sv:intercept:l3harris stated 2 0 0 IL
3856 3856 L3Harris Aurora IL 2026-03-09 system maintenance (amend) 284189.0 A Resolution authorizing the Director of Purchasing to purchase services for Amendment 5 of the System Maintenance Agreement with L3Harris, Melbourne, FL for $284,189. https://legistar1.granicus.com/aurora-il/meetings/2026/3/4889_M_Infrastructure_and_Technology_Committee_26-03-09_Meeting_Minutes.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/aurora-il/#m73964 sv:intercept:l3harris stated 3 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);