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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10 rows where ledger = "sv:radio_infra:l3harris" and state = "IL" 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
3839 3839 L3Harris Aurora IL 2023-12-19 two-way radios (enter into a managed services agreement) 15900000.0 A Resolution authorizing the Director of Purchasing to enter into a managed services agreement for a Public Safety and Municipal Radio System from L3Harris Corporation, Lynchburg, VA for an agreement amount of $15,900,000 for 10 years. https://legistar1.granicus.com/aurora-il/meetings/2023/12/3989_M_Committee_of_the_Whole_23-12-19_Meeting_Minutes.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/aurora-il/2023/#m74584 sv:radio_infra:l3harris stated 1 0 1 IL
3846 3846 L3Harris Aurora IL 2023-12-19 two-way radios (enter into a managed services agreement) 15900000.0 A Resolution authorizing the Director of Purchasing to enter into a managed services agreement for a Public Safety and Municipal Radio System from L3Harris Corporation, Lynchburg, VA for an agreement amount of $15,900,000 for 10 years. https://legistar1.granicus.com/aurora-il/meetings/2023/12/4300_M_City_Council_23-12-19_Meeting_Minutes.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/aurora-il/2023/#m74353 sv:radio_infra:l3harris stated 2 0 1 IL
2409 2409 L3Harris Aurora IL 2026-07-28 radio equipment (purchase) 2409905.0 A Resolution authorizing the Director of Purchasing to purchase radio equipment, installation services and support from L3Harris, Lynchburg, VA for $2,409,905.06. https://legistar1.granicus.com/aurora-il/meetings/2026/7/4785_A_City_Council_26-07-28_Agenda.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/aurora-il/#m8935728 sv:radio_infra:l3harris stated 1 0 0 IL
2848 2848 L3Harris Aurora IL 2026-07-21 two-way radios (purchase) 2409905.0 26-0427 A Resolution authorizing the Director of Purchasing to purchase radio equipment, installation services and support from L3Harris, Lynchburg, VA for $2,409,905.06. https://legistar1.granicus.com/aurora-il/meetings/2026/7/4761_A_Committee_of_the_Whole_26-07-21_Agenda.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/aurora-il/#m1022054 sv:radio_infra:l3harris stated 1 0 0 IL
3246 3246 L3Harris Aurora IL 2026-07-16 two-way radios (purchase) 2409905.0 A Resolution authorizing the Director of Purchasing to purchase radio equipment, installation services and support from L3Harris, Lynchburg, VA for $2,409,905.06. https://legistar1.granicus.com/aurora-il/meetings/2026/7/4912_A_Finance_Committee_26-07-16_Agenda.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/aurora-il/#m607734 sv:radio_infra:l3harris stated 2 0 0 IL
3767 3767 L3Harris Aurora IL 2021-10-12 two-way radios (purchase) 108124.0 A Resolution to approve the purchase of licenses and equipment to increase interoperability of Public Safety radios form L3Harris, Melbourne, FL in the amount of $108,124.63 with a $3,000 contingency. https://legistar1.granicus.com/aurora-il/meetings/2021/10/3454_M_City_Council_21-10-12_Meeting_Minutes.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/aurora-il/2021/#m232499 sv:radio_infra:l3harris stated 1 0 0 IL
3768 3768 L3Harris Aurora IL 2021-10-05 two-way radios (approve purchase) 108124.0 A Resolution to approve the purchase of licenses and equipment to increase interoperability of Public Safety radios form L3Harris, Melbourne, FL in the amount of $108,124.63 with a $3,000 contingency. https://legistar1.granicus.com/aurora-il/meetings/2021/10/3452_M_Committee_of_the_Whole_21-10-05_Meeting_Minutes.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/aurora-il/2021/#m232498 sv:radio_infra:l3harris stated 2 0 0 IL
3834 3834 L3Harris Aurora IL 2021-09-30 two-way radios (approve purchase) 108124.0 A Resolution to approve the purchase of licenses and equipment to increase interoperability of Public Safety radios form L3Harris, Melbourne, FL in the amount of $108,124.63 with a $3,000 contingency. https://legistar1.granicus.com/aurora-il/meetings/2021/9/3618_M_Finance_Committee_21-09-30_Meeting_Minutes.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/aurora-il/2021/#m74846 sv:radio_infra:l3harris stated 3 0 0 IL
3901 3901 L3Harris Naperville IL 2026-05-19 radio system maintenance (amend) 53526.0 Approve the award of Change Order #5 to Contract 14-098, Harris Radio System Maintenance Agreement, to L3 Harris Corporation for an amount not to exceed $53,526 and a total award of $6,170,077.22, plus any additional as-needed costs defined in sections C and D of the Addendum, and for an additional one-month term https://naperville.legistar1.com/naperville/meetings/2026/5/3583_M_City_Council_26-05-19_Meeting_Minutes.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/naperville/#m6041 sv:radio_infra:l3harris ceiling 1 0 0 IL
3902 3902 L3Harris Naperville IL 2026-04-21 radio system maintenance (amend) 53526.0 Approve the award of Change Order #4 to Contract 14-098, Harris Radio System Maintenance Agreement, to L3 Harris Corporation for an amount not to exceed $53,526 and a total award of $6,116,551.22, plus any additional as-needed costs defined in sections C and D of the Addendum, and for an additional one month https://naperville.legistar1.com/naperville/meetings/2026/4/3581_M_City_Council_26-04-21_Meeting_Minutes.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/naperville/#m6028 sv:radio_infra:l3harris ceiling 1 0 0 IL

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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);