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:rms:hexagon" and state = "CA" 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
4253 4253 Hexagon / Intergraph Sunnyvale CA 2024-07-23 OnCall CAD system (award contract) 5494766.0 Award a ten-year contract in substantially the same form as Attachment 1 to the report with a not-to-exceed amount of $5,494,766 (Implementation - $2,994,381 and 8-Year System Maintenance and Support services - $2,500,385) to Intergraph Corporation through its Hexagon Safety, Infrastructure & Geospatial division (“Hexagon”) of Madison, AL for the implementation services, licensing, maintenance and support of the On-Call Dispatch CAD System for public safety dispatch services. https://legistar.granicus.com/Sunnyvale/meetings/2024/7/4015_M_City_Council_24-07-23_Meeting_Minutes.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/sunnyvaleca/2024/#m359153 sv:rms:hexagon stated 1 0 0 CA
4254 4254 Hexagon / Intergraph Santa Clara CA 2024-09-24 CAD system upgrade (amend) 5341925.0 Authorize the City Manager to negotiate and execute Amendment No. 3 to Master Product and Services Agreement (Master Agreement) with Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure to extend the term through November 30, 2029, and execute Orders pursuant to the terms of the Master Agreement to upgrade the Computer Aided Dispatch System to I/CAD 9.4 2H2023 and renew the maintenance and support services with a total not-to-exceed amount of $5,341,925, subject to the appropriation of funds and approval as to form by the City Attorney. https://santaclara.legistar1.com/santaclara/meetings/2024/9/4432_A_Council_and_Authorities_Concurrent_Meeting_24-09-24_Meeting_Agenda.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/santaclara/2024/#m352724 sv:rms:hexagon stated 1 0 0 CA

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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);