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 = "OH" 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
3190 3190 Tyler Technologies (public safety) Springfield OH 2022-03-15 public safety software maintenance (authorize expenditure) 79778.0 Authorizing an expenditure for an amount not to exceed $79,778.42 with Tyler Technologies, Inc. fka New World Systems Corporation for the period of April 1, 2022 through September 30, 2022, to maintain computer software used by the City's Public Safety Departments. https://springfieldohio.primegov.com/Public/CompiledDocument/2309 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/springfieldohio/2022/#m666677 sv:rms:tyler_ps ceiling 1 0 0 OH
3192 3192 Tyler Technologies (public safety) Springfield OH 2021-09-28 public safety software maintenance (authorize expenditure) 75979.0 Authorizing an expenditure for an amount not to exceed $75,979.47 with Tyler Technologies, Inc. fka New World Systems Corporation for the period of October 1, 2021 through March 31, 2022, to maintain computer software used by the City's Public Safety Departments. https://springfieldohio.primegov.com/Public/CompiledDocument/2142 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/springfieldohio/2021/#m666645 sv:rms:tyler_ps ceiling 1 0 0 OH
3193 3193 Tyler Technologies (public safety) Springfield OH 2021-09-14 public safety software maintenance (authorizing the expenditure) 75979.0 Authorizing an expenditure for an amount not to exceed $75,979.47 with Tyler Technologies, Inc. fka New World Systems Corporation for the period of October 1, 2021 through March 31, 2022, to maintain computer software used by the City's Public Safety Departments. https://springfieldohio.primegov.com/Public/CompiledDocument/2139 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/springfieldohio/2021/#m666640 sv:rms:tyler_ps ceiling 2 0 0 OH
3196 3196 Tyler Technologies (public safety) Springfield OH 2021-03-02 public safety software maintenance (amend) 75979.0 Authorizing the City Manager to enter into an amendment with Tyler Technologies, Inc. fka New World Systems Corporation for an amount not to exceed $75,979.47 for the period of April 1, 2021 through September 30, 2021, to maintain computer software used by the City's Public Safety Departments. https://springfieldohio.primegov.com/Public/CompiledDocument/2104 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/springfieldohio/2021/#m666604 sv:rms:tyler_ps ceiling 1 0 0 OH

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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);