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

4 rows where ledger = "sv:rms:tyler_ps", state = "MO" and vendor = "Tyler Technologies (public safety)" sorted by amount descending

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  • sv:rms:tyler_ps · 4 ✖
Link rowid vendor city state spend_date product amount ▲ quote source_document mytown_record ledger amount_type dup_rank geo_suspect anomaly state_norm
2800 2800 Tyler Technologies (public safety) St. Joseph MO 2023-10-02 CAD interface software (amend budget to purchase) 16880.0 authorizing an amendment to the General Fund Communication Center Program budget to appropriate funds received from the Buchanan County Sheriff's Office and the purchase of CAD CFS SML Export Interface software and installation services from Tyler Technologies for interface of data from the City’s Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) software for external third-party solutions all in the amount of $16,880.00 https://www.stjosephmo.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_10022023-2729 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/stjosephmo.gov/#m1215881 sv:rms:tyler_ps stated 1 0 0 MO
2801 2801 Tyler Technologies (public safety) St. Joseph MO 2024-04-01 public safety records solution (purchase) 16675.0 A Resolution (Bill #779-22) authorizing the purchase of Enterprise Public Safety Records Solution from Tyler Technologies in the amount of $16,675.00 for the Fire Department, was read and adopted. https://www.stjosephmo.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_04012024-2853 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/stjosephmo.gov/#m1215590 sv:rms:tyler_ps stated 1 0 0 MO
2805 2805 Tyler Technologies (public safety) St. Joseph MO 2025-09-02 CAD export interface (authorize contract) 2480.0 in addition to CAD export interface installation services by Tyler Technologies in the amount of $2,480.00 https://www.stjosephmo.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_09022025-3167 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/stjosephmo.gov/2025/#m1214853 sv:rms:tyler_ps stated 1 0 0 MO
2806 2806 Tyler Technologies (public safety) St. Joseph MO 2025-09-29 CAD export interface (amend) 2480.0 IN ADDITION TO CAD EXPORT INTERFACE INSTALLATION SERVICES BY TYLER TECHNOLOGIES IN THE AMOUNT OF $2,480.00. https://www.stjosephmo.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_09292025-3178 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/stjosephmo.gov/2025/#m1214852 sv:rms:tyler_ps stated 1 0 0 MO

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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);