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

2 rows where ledger = "sv:radio_infra:motorola" and state = "FL" 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
3730 3730 Motorola Solutions Clearwater FL 2025-03-17 dispatch consoles (purchase) 1303879.0 Approve a purchase order to Motorola Solutions, Inc., of Chicago, IL, for 12 CommandCentral AXS Dispatch Consoles and NICE Logging Interface with two-years of associated warranty service for $1,303,879.00 pursuant to Clearwater Code of Ordinances Section 2.563(1)(c) Piggyback or cooperative purchasing, Section 2.563(1)(d) Noncompetitive (Impractical), and authorize the appropriate officials to execute same. https://legistar2.granicus.com/clearwater/meetings/2025/3/2925_A_City_Council_25-03-17_Meeting_Agenda.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/clearwater/2025/#m260969 sv:radio_infra:motorola stated 1 0 0 FL
2613 2613 Motorola Solutions Hialeah FL 2024-12-10 two-way radios (purchase) 543743.0 Proposed resolution authorizing the Mayor or his designee and the City Clerk, as attesting witness, on behalf of the City, to issue a purchase order to Motorola Solutions, Inc., in an amount not to exceed $543,743.00, utilizing the NASPO Contract No. 19860-NASPO-00318 for the procurement of public safety communications equipment to be utilized by the Hialeah Police Department, including additional discounts provided under the Miami-Dade County Volume Incentive https://www.hialeahfl.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_12102024-1196 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/hialeahfl.gov/2024/#m1411139 sv:radio_infra:motorola ceiling 1 0 0 FL

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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);