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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7 rows where ledger = "sv:motorola:motorola", state = "GA" and vendor = "Motorola Solutions" 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
3013 3013 Motorola Solutions Douglas County GA 2025-12-02 body cameras (approve contract) 1059000.0 Approval of a five-year agreement with Motorola in the amount of $1,059,000 to be funded by the Sheriffs Department's 2026 budget for body cameras, in-vehicle cameras and storage and authorize the Chairman to sign all related documents pending legal review. https://douglascountyga.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=7077,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/douglascountyga/2025/#m752236 sv:motorola:motorola stated 1 0 0 GA
3014 3014 Motorola Solutions Douglas County GA 2025-12-01 body cameras (approve contract) 1059000.0 Approval of a five-year agreement with Motorola in the amount of $1,059,000 to be funded by the Sheriffs Department's 2026 budget for body cameras, in-vehicle cameras and storage and authorize the Chairman to sign all related documents pending legal review. https://douglascountyga.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=7068,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/douglascountyga/2025/#m752235 sv:motorola:motorola stated 2 0 0 GA
3339 3339 Motorola Solutions Forsyth County GA 2026-06-18 CommandCentral Aware (amend) 270000.0 Board approval of the Motorola Solutions proposal PS-000217522, Motorola Solutions Services Agreement addendum and Budget Resolution for the Command Central Aware Services in the amount of $270,000.00 for year one - Director, Emergency Management Agency https://forsythcoga.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=5174,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/forsythcoga/#m557087 sv:motorola:motorola proposed 1 0 0 GA
3369 3369 Motorola Solutions Cherokee County GA 2025-12-16 E911 system maintenance (renew) 136000.0 Consider request from E911 for renewal of annual service and maintenance agreement with Motorola Solutions for the E911 VESTA System in the annual amount of $136,000.00. https://cherokeega.granicus.com/MinutesViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=1437 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/gr-cherokeega/2025/#m555508 sv:motorola:motorola stated 1 0 0 GA
3370 3370 Motorola Solutions Cherokee County GA 2025-12-16 E911 system maintenance (renew) 136000.0 Consider request from E911 for renewal of annual service and maintenance agreement with Motorola Solutions for the E911 VESTA System in the annual amount of $136,000.00. https://cherokeega.granicus.com/MinutesViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=1436 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/gr-cherokeega/2025/#m555507 sv:motorola:motorola stated 2 0 0 GA
2865 2865 Motorola Solutions East Point GA 2025-08-11 911 service agreement (renew) 89480.0 Council Discussion and Possible Action on the Renewal of the Motorola Service Agreement for the E-911 Division for Fiscal Year July 1, 2025 - June 30, 2026 in the Amount of $89,480.74 https://eastpointcityga.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=1&ID=3054&Inline=True https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/iq-eastpointcityga/2025/#m879766 sv:motorola:motorola stated 1 0 0 GA
2697 2697 Motorola Solutions College Park GA 2023-09-05 service agreement (approve) 66672.0 Motion to approve Motorola Solutions Service Agreement for Fiscal Year 2024 at the cost of $66,672.88 https://www.collegeparkga.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09052023-365 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/collegeparkga.gov/2023/#m1347566 sv:motorola:motorola 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);