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

7 rows where ledger = "sv:rms:hexagon" and state = "KY" 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
4037 4037 Hexagon / Intergraph Georgetown KY 2024-12-09 CAD dispatch system (approve contract) 98160.0 b) Hexagon Technologies - $98,160.00 https://www.georgetownky.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_12092024-169 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/georgetownky.gov/2024/#m1306262 sv:rms:hexagon stated 1 0 0 KY
4038 4038 Hexagon / Intergraph Georgetown KY 2024-12-12 CAD dispatch software (approve contract) 98160.0 b) Hexagon Technologies - $98,160.00 https://www.georgetownky.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_12122024-250 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/georgetownky.gov/2024/#m1306261 sv:rms:hexagon stated 2 0 0 KY
4033 4033 Hexagon / Intergraph Georgetown KY 2024-06-24 RMS software (purchase) 93360.0 A motion to approve a purchase order to Hexagon Technologies for $93,360.00 was made by Councilmember Allen and seconded by Councilmember Butcher Conway. https://www.georgetownky.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_06242024-17 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/georgetownky.gov/2024/#m1306277 sv:rms:hexagon stated 1 0 0 KY
4034 4034 Hexagon / Intergraph Georgetown KY 2024-07-08 CAD dispatch system (approve purchase order) 93360.0 A motion to approve a purchase order to Hexagon Technologies for $93,360.00 was made by Councilmember Allen and seconded by Councilmember Butcher Conway. The motion was unanimously approved. https://www.georgetownky.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_07082024-18 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/georgetownky.gov/2024/#m1306276 sv:rms:hexagon stated 1 0 0 KY
4039 4039 Hexagon / Intergraph Georgetown KY 2023-12-11 CAD dispatch system (purchase) 93360.0 Approval of purchase order to Hexagon Technologies, Inc for $93,360.00. https://www.georgetownky.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_12112023-62 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/georgetownky.gov/2023/#m1306091 sv:rms:hexagon stated 1 0 0 KY
4035 4035 Hexagon / Intergraph Georgetown KY 2024-10-28 RMS software (purchase) 31120.0 Purchase order — Hexagon Technologies, Inc. — $31,120.00 https://www.georgetownky.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_10282024-26 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/georgetownky.gov/2024/#m1306266 sv:rms:hexagon stated 1 0 0 KY
4036 4036 Hexagon / Intergraph Georgetown KY 2024-11-11 CAD dispatch system (purchase) 31120.0 Purchase order – Hexagon Technologies, Inc. – $31,120.00 https://www.georgetownky.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_11112024-166 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/georgetownky.gov/2024/#m1306265 sv:rms:hexagon stated 1 0 0 KY

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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);