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:tyler_ps" and state = "MN" 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
3890 3890 Tyler Technologies (public safety) Duluth MN 2026-06-15 RMS software (amend) 2307676.0 RESOLUTION AMENDING AND CORRECTING THE TOTAL AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $1,204,823 TO THE CORRECT TOTAL AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $2,307,676.00 IN RESOLUTION 24-0305 FOR THE PURCHASE OF SOFTWARE LICENSING, MIGRATION SERVICES, VPN APPLIANCES AND ANNUAL SAAS HOSTING FEES FOR THE CITY’S MULTI-JURISDICTIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT RECORDS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (RMS) FROM TYLER TECHNOLOGIES, INC.. https://duluth-mn.legistar1.com/duluth-mn/meetings/2026/6/2981_M_City_Council_26-06-15_Minutes.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/duluth-mn/#m10557 sv:rms:tyler_ps ceiling 1 0 0 MN
3680 3680 Tyler Technologies (public safety) Duluth MN 2024-04-22 records management system (purchase) 1204823.0 RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE PURCHASE OF SOFTWARE LICENSING, MIGRATION SERVICES, VPN APPLIANCES AND ANNUAL SAAS HOSTING FEES FOR THE CITY’S MULTI-JURISDICTIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT RECORDS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FROM TYLER TECHNOLOGIES, INC., WHICH INCLUDES SOFTWARE FOR RECORDS MANAGEMENT, MOBILE FIELD-BASED REPORTING, CITATIONS, PROPERTY AND EVIDENCE, OFFICER MOBILITY TOOLS AND ADVANCED REPORT WRITING FOR A FIVE-YEAR AGREEMENT TERM FOR AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $1,204,823. https://duluth-mn.legistar1.com/duluth-mn/meetings/2024/4/2566_M_City_Council_24-04-22_Minutes.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/duluth-mn/2024/#m279242 sv:rms:tyler_ps ceiling 1 0 0 MN
3681 3681 Tyler Technologies (public safety) Duluth MN 2023-12-18 records management system maintenance (purchase) 161693.0 RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE PURCHASE OF SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE AND SUPPORT FOR THE MULTI-JURISDICTIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT RECORDS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FROM TYLER TECHNOLOGIES, INC. THROUGH 2024 FOR AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $161,693.24. https://duluth-mn.legistar1.com/duluth-mn/meetings/2023/12/2425_M_City_Council_23-12-18_Minutes.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/duluth-mn/2023/#m279203 sv:rms:tyler_ps ceiling 1 0 0 MN
3412 3412 Tyler Technologies (public safety) Hennepin County MN 2025-04-22 electronic citation software (approve contract) 150000.0 Agmt PR00006752 with Tyler Technologies, Inc. to provide electronic citation software as a service, 01/01/25-12/31/27, NTE $150,000 https://hennepinmn.legistar1.com/hennepinmn/meetings/2025/4/1240_M_Board_of_Hennepin_County_Commissioners_25-04-22_BOARD_MINUTES.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/hennepinmn/2025/#m530569 sv:rms:tyler_ps ceiling 1 0 0 MN
3413 3413 Tyler Technologies (public safety) Hennepin County MN 2025-05-06 e-citation software (approve contract) 150000.0 Agmt PR00006752 with Tyler Technologies, Inc. to provide electronic citation software as a service, 01/01/25-12/31/27, NTE $150,000 https://hennepinmn.legistar1.com/hennepinmn/meetings/2025/5/1242_M_Board_of_Hennepin_County_Commissioners_25-05-06_BOARD_MINUTES.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/hennepinmn/2025/#m530567 sv:rms:tyler_ps ceiling 2 0 0 MN
3414 3414 Tyler Technologies (public safety) Hennepin County MN 2025-04-29 electronic citation software (approve contract) 150000.0 Agmt PR00006752 with Tyler Technologies, Inc. to provide electronic citation software as a service, 01/01/25-12/31/27, NTE $150,000 https://hennepinmn.legistar1.com/hennepinmn/meetings/2025/4/1246_M_Law%2C_Safety_and_Justice_Committee_25-04-29_COMMITTEE_MINUTES.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/hennepinmn/2025/#m530563 sv:rms:tyler_ps ceiling 3 0 0 MN
3415 3415 Tyler Technologies (public safety) Hennepin County MN 2025-06-10 e-citation software (award contract) 150000.0 Agmt PR00006752 with Tyler Technologies, Inc. to provide electronic citation software as a service, 07/01/2025-06/30/28, NTE $150,000 https://hennepinmn.legistar1.com/hennepinmn/meetings/2025/6/1262_M_Board_of_Hennepin_County_Commissioners_25-06-10_BOARD_MINUTES.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/hennepinmn/2025/#m530547 sv:rms:tyler_ps ceiling 1 0 0 MN

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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);