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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4 rows where ledger = "sv:radio_infra:motorola" and state = "MN" 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
2544 2544 Motorola Solutions Little Falls MN 2026-01-20 two-way radios (award bid) 10734.0 Granite Electronics (DSC Communications), St. Cloud, for two Motorola APX6500 squad radios in the amount of $10,734; https://www.cityoflittlefalls.com/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_01202026-167 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/cityoflittlefalls.com/#m1527819 sv:radio_infra:motorola stated 1 0 0 MN
2482 2482 Motorola Solutions Ely MN 2024-05-21 two-way radios (purchase) 6433.0 A.Forsman/Kess moved to approve the recommendation from Budget Committee to approve the purchases from EATI for $22,401.34, Motorola solutions for $6,433.20 and SHI for $3,073.65 to outfit the new police squad. https://www.ely.mn.us/vertical/sites/%7B487F0A5E-BE52-4CAD-977F-7436EDEE4F85%7D/uploads/2024-05-21_Council_Minutes.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/ely.mn.us/2024/#m1618948 sv:radio_infra:motorola recommended 1 0 0 MN
2527 2527 Motorola Solutions Watonwan County MN 2024-01-16 two-way radios (accept grant and authorize equipment) 6200.0 The Watonwan County Board of Commissioners has approved accepting an APX600 Motorola Radio and related equipment through the State Homeland Security Program Grant (SHSP) from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) a t no invoice cost (value of $6200) to the county; https://www.watonwancountymn.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_01162024-830 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/watonwancountymn.gov/2024/#m1550898 sv:radio_infra:motorola stated 1 0 0 MN
2499 2499 Motorola Solutions Grant County MN 2025-10-21 two-way radios (pay the bills) 1035.0 Motorola Solutions Connectivity$1,035.00; https://www.co.grant.mn.us/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_10212025-590 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/co.grant.mn.us/#m1576838 sv:radio_infra:motorola stated 1 1 0 MN

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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);