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:radio_infra:harris_corp" and state = "NV" 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
3266 3266 Harris Corporation Washoe County NV 2023-10-03 P25 radios (purchase) 183559.0 Recommendation to approve the purchase of fifty-five (55) P25-compliant Tri-Band mobile radios to include miscellaneous accessories at an estimated cost of $183,559.80 from L3Harris Technologies, Inc. 221 Jefferson Ridge Parkway Lynchburg, Virginia 24501 in accordance with Washoe County/Harris Corporation (Now L3Harris Technologies) Agreement MBP#19829. https://washoe-nv.legistar1.com/washoe-nv/meetings/2023/10/1601_A_Board_of_Fire_Commissioners_23-10-03_TMFPD_BOFC.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/washoe-nv/2023/#m593463 sv:radio_infra:harris_corp recommended 1 1 0 NV
3263 3263 Harris Corporation Washoe County NV 2021-06-01 radio system repairs (approve retroactive and continued purchases) 150000.0 Vendors receiving these additional funds include the following: ARC Health & Wellness, LLC, Allstar Fire Equipment, and Harris Corporation. Amounts to be paid to each of these vendors, respectively, shall not exceed $150,000. https://washoe-nv.legistar1.com/washoe-nv/meetings/2021/6/1385_A_Board_of_Fire_Commissioners_21-06-01_TMFPD_BOFC.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/washoe-nv/2021/#m593590 sv:radio_infra:harris_corp stated 1 1 0 NV
3265 3265 Harris Corporation Washoe County NV 2022-10-04 P25 radios (approve purchase) 138025.0 Recommendation to approve the purchase of sixty (60) P25 compliant Tri-Band handheld radios to include miscellaneous accessories at an estimated cost of $138,025.09 from L3Harris Technologies, Inc. 221 Jefferson Ridge Parkway Lynchburg, Virginia 24501 in accordance with Washoe County/Harris Corporation (Now L3Harris Technologies) Agreement MBP#19829. https://washoe-nv.legistar1.com/washoe-nv/meetings/2022/10/1501_A_Board_of_Fire_Commissioners_22-10-04_TMFPD_BOFC.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/washoe-nv/2022/#m593521 sv:radio_infra:harris_corp recommended 1 1 0 NV

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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);