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 = "OK" and vendor = "Tyler Technologies (public safety)" 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
2437 2437 Tyler Technologies (public safety) Edmond OK 2026-06-08 public safety software (renew and amend) 579483.0 Consideration of Approval of Renewal of Annual Software License and Maintenance and Amendment to Upgrade the Public Safety Software from Tyler Technologies, Inc; $579,483.00. https://public.destinyhosted.com/edmondocs/2026/CC/20260608_31022/31021_CC%20and%20PWA%20Minutes%20-%2006-08-2026.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/aq-33666/#m6754100 sv:rms:tyler_ps stated 1 0 0 OK
4364 4364 Tyler Technologies (public safety) Owasso OK 2026-06-02 CAD and RMS software maintenance (approve payment) 147823.0 Authorize payment of $147,823.46 to Tyler Technologies of Plano, Texas, for annual software maintenance of Computer Aided Dispatch Software (CAD) and Report Management System Software (RMS) https://www.cityofowasso.com/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_06022026-1625 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/cityofowasso.com/#m16956 sv:rms:tyler_ps stated 1 0 0 OK
4029 4029 Tyler Technologies (public safety) Yukon OK 2023-08-01 Police CAD maintenance (renew) 105381.0 Renewal of the annual maintenance agreement for 48 New World System modules (Police CAD (Computer Aided Dispatch) Software) with Tyler Technologies, in the amount of $105,381.22, to be paid from the Technology 2023-2024 Budget, as recommended by the Information Technology Director https://www.yukonok.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_08012023-698 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/yukonok.gov/2023/#m1324959 sv:rms:tyler_ps recommended 1 0 0 OK
2440 2440 Tyler Technologies (public safety) Edmond OK 2025-11-24 ASAP interface (approve purchase) 20720.0 Consideration of Approval of Purchase from Tyler Technologies, Inc and Mission Critical for Automated Secure Alarm Protocol (ASAP) Standard Interface for Public Safety Communications; $20,720.00. https://public.destinyhosted.com/edmondocs/2025/CC/20251124_30712/30711_CC%20and%20PWA%20Minutes%2011-24-25.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/aq-33666/2025/#m6753771 sv:rms:tyler_ps stated 1 0 0 OK

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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);