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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7 rows where ledger = "sv:rms:centralsquare" and state = "OH" 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
3759 3759 CentralSquare Cincinnati OH 2025-04-21 CAD software maintenance (payment) 371504.0 AUTHORIZING the payment of $371,504.54 from Enterprise Software and Licenses Non-Departmental General Fund non-personnel operating budget account no. 050x952x0000x7418 as a moral obligation to CentralSquare Corporation for outstanding charges related to software maintenance and support of the computer aided dispatch system from March 1, 2025 through February 28, 2026. https://cincinnatioh.legistar1.com/cincinnatioh/meetings/2025/4/10511_M_Budget_and_Finance_Committee_25-04-21_Meeting_Minutes.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/cincinnatioh/2025/#m241437 sv:rms:centralsquare stated 1 0 0 OH
3191 3191 CentralSquare Springfield OH 2021-12-21 software maintenance (contract) 93444.0 Authorizing an expenditure in an amount not to exceed $93,444.11 to contract with Superion, LLC, a CentralSquare Company fka SunGard Public Sector, Inc. fka HTE, Inc. to provide the City with maintenance services for various computer software applications for the period January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2022. https://springfieldohio.primegov.com/Public/CompiledDocument/2161 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/springfieldohio/2021/#m666666 sv:rms:centralsquare ceiling 1 0 0 OH
2691 2691 CentralSquare Trenton OH 2025-09-18 records and CAD system (renew) 37811.0 Regarding, A Motion To Authorize Payment In the Amount of $37,811.62 for the annual software maintenance and support to central square technologies. https://www.ci.trenton.oh.us/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_09182025-504 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/ci.trenton.oh.us/2025/#m1350259 sv:rms:centralsquare stated 1 0 0 OH
2692 2692 CentralSquare Trenton OH 2025-10-02 records and CAD system (renew) 37811.0 A Motion To Authorize Payment In the Amount of $37,811.62 for the annual software maintenance and support to central square technologies. https://www.ci.trenton.oh.us/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_10022025-506 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/ci.trenton.oh.us/2025/#m1350257 sv:rms:centralsquare stated 1 0 0 OH
2690 2690 CentralSquare Trenton OH 2024-09-19 software maintenance (authorize payment) 35655.0 A MOTION TO AUTHORIZE PAYMENT IN THE AMOUNT OF THIRTY FIVE THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED FIFTY FIVE DOLLARS AND THIRTY NINE CENTS ($35,655.39) FOR THE ANNUAL SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE AND SUPPORT TO CENTRAL SQUARE TECHNOLOGIES. https://www.ci.trenton.oh.us/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_09192024-414 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/ci.trenton.oh.us/2024/#m1350426 sv:rms:centralsquare stated 1 0 0 OH
3754 3754 CentralSquare Cincinnati OH 2026-01-12 Field Ops software maintenance (payment) 4742.0 AUTHORIZING the payment of $4,742.50 from Emergency Communications Center General Fund non-personnel operating budget account no. 050x103x0000x7418 as a moral obligation payment to CentralSquare Technologies, LLC (dba Tritech Software Systems) for the annual maintenance fees associated with the Field Ops software during FY 2024 and FY 2025. https://cincinnatioh.legistar1.com/cincinnatioh/meetings/2026/1/10687_M_Budget%2C_Finance___Governance_Committee_26-01-12_Meeting_Minutes.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/cincinnatioh/#m241558 sv:rms:centralsquare stated 1 0 0 OH
3755 3755 CentralSquare Cincinnati OH 2026-01-07 Field Ops software maintenance (authorize payment) 4742.0 AUTHORIZING the payment of $4,742.50 from Emergency Communications Center General Fund non-personnel operating budget account no. 050x103x0000x7418 as a moral obligation payment to CentralSquare Technologies, LLC (dba Tritech Software Systems) for the annual maintenance fees associated with the Field Ops software during FY 2024 and FY 2025. https://cincinnatioh.legistar1.com/cincinnatioh/meetings/2026/1/10679_M_Cincinnati_City_Council_26-01-07_Meeting_Minutes.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/cincinnatioh/#m241556 sv:rms:centralsquare stated 2 0 0 OH

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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);