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

5 rows where ledger = "sv:radio_infra:motorola" and state = "AZ" sorted by amount descending

✎ View and edit SQL

This data as json, CSV (advanced)

Suggested facets: city, amount_type, spend_date (date)

vendor 1

state 1

ledger 1

  • sv:radio_infra:motorola · 5 ✖
Link rowid vendor city state spend_date product amount ▲ quote source_document mytown_record ledger amount_type dup_rank geo_suspect anomaly state_norm
3324 3324 Motorola Solutions Queen Creek AZ 2026-06-03 two-way radios (approve contract) 1209000.0 Motorola – Portable and Mobile Radios and Related Software, Services and Equipment: $1,209,000 (Police, Fire & Medical, Parks & Recreation-Park Rangers) https://queencreekaz.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=4&clip_id=1862 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/gr-queencreekaz/#m565214 sv:radio_infra:motorola stated 1 0 0 AZ
3317 3317 Motorola Solutions Queen Creek AZ 2024-06-05 two-way radios (purchase) 550000.0 Motorola – Portable and Mobile Radios and Related Software, Services and Equipment: $550,000 (Police) https://queencreekaz.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=4&clip_id=1403 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/gr-queencreekaz/2024/#m565355 sv:radio_infra:motorola stated 1 0 0 AZ
2872 2872 Motorola Solutions Coolidge AZ 2023-09-11 two-way radios (approve expenditure) 438696.0 Utilizing AZ State Contract CTR046830 with Motorola Solutions in the Amount of $438,696.30; and Approve Expenditure of Said Funds. https://coolidgecityaz.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=15&ID=2491&Inline=True https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/iq-coolidgecityaz/2023/#m879447 sv:radio_infra:motorola stated 1 0 0 AZ
3614 3614 Motorola Solutions Paradise Valley AZ 2025-09-11 two-way radios (authorize contract) 390500.0 Authorize the Town Manager to execute a linking agreement for the purchase of Police Department radio equipment and services from Motorola Solutions in an amount not to exceed $390,500. https://paradisevalleyaz.legistar1.com/paradisevalleyaz/meetings/2025/9/1914_A_Town_Council_25-09-11_Meeting_Notice_and_Agenda.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/paradisevalleyaz/2025/#m331327 sv:radio_infra:motorola ceiling 1 0 0 AZ
2441 2441 Motorola Solutions Chandler AZ 2026-06-25 CommandCentral Aware subscriptions and radio equipment (amend) 339964.0 Move City Council approve Change Order No. 5 to agreement for the purchase of Command Central Aware subscriptions and equipment, from Motorola Solutions, utilizing the HGACBuy Contract No. RA05-21, increasing the spending limit by $339,964.97, for a revised amount not to exceed $742,645.97, and authorize the City Manager, or designee to execute the change order. https://public.destinyhosted.com/chanddocs/2026/CC/20260625_2338/2334_City-of-Chandler-City-Council-regular-meeting-minutes-June-25-2026.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/aq-24263/#m6751758 sv:radio_infra:motorola ceiling 1 0 0 AZ

Advanced export

JSON shape: default, array, newline-delimited

CSV options: 

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);