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:photo_enforce:conduent" and state = "OH" 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
4327 4327 Conduent Columbus OH 2018-02-12 parking violation processing (amend) 845000.0 To authorize the Director of Public Service to enter into a contract modification for the Parking Services Division with Conduent State & Local Solutions Inc. to provide parking violation processing services; to authorize the expenditure of $845,000.00 from the General Fund contingent upon passage of the 2018 General Fund budget, for this contract; and to declare an emergency. ($845,000.00) http://legistar3.granicus.com/Columbus/meetings/2018/2/5582_M_Columbus_City_Council_18-02-12_Minutes_-_Final.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/columbus/#m144544 sv:photo_enforce:conduent stated 1 0 0 OH
4328 4328 Conduent Columbus OH 2018-06-18 license plate recognition software and equipment, virtual residential permit software and support, and a mobile payment (amend contract) 479600.0 to authorize the Director of Public Service to enter into a contract with Conduent State & Local Solutions to provide license plate recognition software and equipment, virtual residential permit software and support, and a mobile payment application to modernize City parking services; to authorize the expenditure of $133,600.00 from the General Fund and the expenditure of $346,000.00 from the Streets & Highways Bond Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($479,600.00) http://legistar3.granicus.com/Columbus/meetings/2018/6/5612_M_Columbus_City_Council_18-06-18_Minutes_-_Final.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/columbus/#m144518 sv:photo_enforce:conduent stated 1 0 0 OH
4329 4329 Conduent Columbus OH 2023-03-06 parking violation processing (amend) 300000.0 To authorize the Director of Public Service to modify the contract for the Parking Services Division with Conduent State & Local Solutions, Inc. to provide parking violation processing; to authorize the expenditure of $300,000.00 from the within the Mobility Enterprise Operating Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($300,000.00) https://legistar3.granicus.com/Columbus/meetings/2023/3/5925_M_Columbus_City_Council_23-03-06_Minutes_-_Final.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/columbus/2023/#m144244 sv:photo_enforce:conduent 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);