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

5 rows where ledger = "sv:rms:tritech" and state = "GA" 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
4221 4221 TriTech Software DeKalb County GA 2018-10-09 CAD system (amend) 520560.0 CO - Change Order No. 1 to Contract No. 1010560 for Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) System (Multiyear Contract): for use by Police Services. Consists of providing an enhanced CAD system for E911. Awarded to TriTech Software Systems. Amount Not To Exceed: $520,560.00. http://dekalbcountyga.legistar1.com/dekalbcountyga/meetings/2018/10/2381_A_Board_of_Commissioners_18-10-09_Agenda.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/dekalbcountyga/#m556465 sv:rms:tritech ceiling 1 0 0 GA
4224 4224 TriTech Software DeKalb County GA 2019-06-18 CAD system (amend) 57644.0 CO - Change Order No. 2 to Contract No. 1010560 for Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) System (Multiyear Contract): for use by Police Services. The contract consists of providing an enhanced CAD system for receiving and responding to the County’s emergency E911 calls. Awarded to TriTech Software Systems. Amount Not To Exceed: $57,644.00. http://dekalbcountyga.legistar1.com/dekalbcountyga/meetings/2019/6/2648_M_Committee_of_the_Whole_19-06-18_Meeting_Minutes.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/dekalbcountyga/#m556411 sv:rms:tritech ceiling 1 0 0 GA
4222 4222 TriTech Software DeKalb County GA 2019-06-04 RMS software support (amend) 48830.0 CO - Change Order No. 3 to Contract No. 956098 for TriTech Software Support (Sole Source): for use by Police Services (PS). This contract consists of the provision of software support and updates for the software used for the records management system and field-based reporting. Awarded to TriTech Software Systems. Amount Not To Exceed: $48,830.50. http://dekalbcountyga.legistar1.com/dekalbcountyga/meetings/2019/6/2646_M_Committee_of_the_Whole_19-06-04_Meeting_Minutes.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/dekalbcountyga/#m556413 sv:rms:tritech ceiling 1 0 0 GA
4223 4223 TriTech Software DeKalb County GA 2019-06-11 RMS software support (amend) 48830.0 CO - Change Order No. 3 to Contract No. 956098 for TriTech Software Support (Sole Source): for use by Police Services (PS). This contract consists of the provision of software support and updates for the software used for the records management system and field-based reporting. Awarded to TriTech Software Systems. Amount Not To Exceed: $48,830.50. http://dekalbcountyga.legistar1.com/dekalbcountyga/meetings/2019/6/2647_A_Board_of_Commissioners_19-06-11_Agenda.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/dekalbcountyga/#m556412 sv:rms:tritech ceiling 2 0 0 GA
4228 4228 TriTech Software DeKalb County GA 2024-06-27 CAD system support (amend) 46361.0 Awarded to CentralSquare Technologies (TriTech Software Systems). Amount Not To Exceed: $46,361.21. https://dekalbcountyga.legistar1.com/dekalbcountyga/meetings/2024/6/3993_M_Committee_of_the_Whole_24-06-27_Meeting_Minutes.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/dekalbcountyga/2024/#m556047 sv:rms:tritech ceiling 1 0 0 GA

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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);