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", state = "NJ" and vendor = "Motorola Solutions" sorted by amount descending

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  • sv:radio_infra:motorola · 2 ✖
Link rowid vendor city state spend_date product amount ▲ quote source_document mytown_record ledger amount_type dup_rank geo_suspect anomaly state_norm
3145 3145 Motorola Solutions Morris County NJ 2021-04-28 two-way radios (purchase) 535447.0 Resolution authorizing the purchase of annual services agreement for Trunk Radio System Maintenance on State contract 83909 from Motorola Solutions, Inc., in the amount of $535,447.06 from January 1, 2021 thru December 31, 2021. https://morriscountynj.primegov.com/Public/CompiledDocument/649 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/morriscountynj/2021/#m684947 sv:radio_infra:motorola stated 1 0 0 NJ
2535 2535 Motorola Solutions Gloucester County NJ 2024-09-04 two-way radios (purchase) 21060.0 55411 RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING A PURCHASE FROM MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC. VIA STATE CONTRACT FROM SEPTEMBER 4, 2024 TO SEPTEMBER 3, 2025 FOR $21,060.00. https://www.gloucestercountynj.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_09042024-459 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/gloucestercountynj.gov/2024/#m1541646 sv:radio_infra:motorola stated 1 0 0 NJ

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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);