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

4 rows where ledger = "sv:radio_infra:harris_corp" and state = "OK" 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
3217 3217 Harris Corporation Oklahoma City OK 2026-02-10 radio system (renew) 1028255.0 Renewal No. 5 of Joint System Purchase Agreement with The City of Oklahoma City and Harris Corporation Communication Systems Segment dba L3 Harris Technologies Inc., for the P25 Phase II 800MHz Trunked Simulcast Radio System and Microwave Network, estimated cost of $1,028,255.21, retroactive to February 9, 2026 through February 8, 2027. https://okc.primegov.com/Public/CompiledDocument/76661 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/okc/#m641740 sv:radio_infra:harris_corp estimated 1 1 0 OK
3218 3218 Harris Corporation Oklahoma City OK 2025-02-25 800MHz radio system (renew) 1006000.0 Renewal No. 4 of Joint System Purchase Agreement with The City of Oklahoma City and Harris Corporation Communication Systems Segment dba L3 Harris Technologies Inc., for P25 Phase II 800MHz Trunked Simulcast Radio System and Microwave Network, estimated cost of $1,006,000, retroactive to February 9, 2025 through February 8, 2026. https://okc.primegov.com/Public/CompiledDocument/69922 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/okc/2025/#m641149 sv:radio_infra:harris_corp estimated 1 1 0 OK
3092 3092 Harris Corporation Bixby OK 2021-05-24 portable radios (purchase) 12573.0 Harris Corporation as a sole source vendor pursuant to (Purchasing Ordinance No. 2121, 2-4-8) for (Harris XL 200 Portable Radios and Operating Equipment) for Fire Department not to exceed $12573.40 funding from 2020-2021 General Budget. https://bixbyok.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=725,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/bixbyok/2021/#m706342 sv:radio_infra:harris_corp ceiling 1 0 0 OK
3093 3093 Harris Corporation Bixby OK 2021-05-24 radio system (purchase) 12573.0 Harris Corporation as a sole source vendor pursuant to (Purchasing Ordinance No. 2121, 2-4-8) for (Harris XL 200 Portable Radios and Operating Equipment) for Fire Department not to exceed $12573.40 funding from 2020-2021 General Budget. https://bixbyok.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=722,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/bixbyok/2021/#m706340 sv:radio_infra:harris_corp ceiling 2 0 0 OK

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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);