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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3 rows where ledger = "sv:photo_enforce:ats" and state = "CO" 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
4282 4282 American Traffic Solutions Denver CO 2022-03-21 photo radar and red light (approve contract) 5660000.0 Approves a contract with American Traffic Solutions, Inc. d/b/a/ Verra Mobility for $5,660,000 and for 5 years to provide photo radar and photo red light services citywide (POLIC-202261957). https://denver.legistar1.com/denver/meetings/2022/3/7684_M_City_Council_22-03-21_Council_Minutes.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/denver/2022/#m276897 sv:photo_enforce:ats stated 1 0 0 CO
4285 4285 American Traffic Solutions Denver CO 2022-02-15 photo radar and red light (approve contract) 5660000.0 Approves a contract with American Traffic Solutions, Inc. d/b/a/ Verra Mobility for $5,660,000 and for 5 years to provide photo radar and photo red light services citywide (POLIC-202261957). https://denver.legistar1.com/denver/meetings/2022/2/7641_A_Mayor-Council_22-02-15_Mayor-Council_Agenda.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/denver/2022/#m276861 sv:photo_enforce:ats stated 2 0 0 CO
4286 4286 American Traffic Solutions Denver CO 2022-02-09 photo radar and red-light cameras (approve contract) 5660000.0 Approves a contract with American Traffic Solutions, Inc. d/b/a/ Verra Mobility for $5,660,000 and for 5 years to provide photo radar and photo red light services citywide (POLIC-202261957). https://denver.legistar1.com/denver/meetings/2022/2/7617_M_Safety%2C_Housing%2C_Education___Homelessness_Committee_22-02-09_Committee_Minutes.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/denver/2022/#m276854 sv:photo_enforce:ats stated 3 0 0 CO

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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);