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.

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4 rows where ledger = "sv:rms:versaterm", state = "AZ" and vendor = "Versaterm" 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
4366 4366 Versaterm Mesa AZ 2026-05-04 fire incident management system (purchase) 490200.0 The Mesa Fire and Medical Department and Procurement Services recommend authorizing the purchase using the State of Arizona cooperative contract with Versaterm Public Safety US, Inc., in an amount not to exceed $490,200 for Year 1, $444,000 for Year 2, and $455,100 for Year 3, with an annual increase allowance of up to 5%, or the adjusted Consumer Price Index. https://legistar1.granicus.com/Mesa/meetings/2026/5/4486_A_City_Council_26-05-04_Meeting_Agenda.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/mesa/#m1753 sv:rms:versaterm ceiling 1 0 0 AZ
4209 4209 Versaterm Queen Creek AZ 2024-06-05 RMS maintenance (renew) 375000.0 Versaterm, Inc. – Annual Maintenance for Police RMS: $375,000 (Police) https://queencreekaz.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=4&clip_id=1403 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/gr-queencreekaz/2024/#m565355 sv:rms:versaterm stated 1 0 0 AZ
4210 4210 Versaterm Queen Creek AZ 2025-09-17 Critical Incident Management Suite (accept grant and approve budget adjustment) 333167.0 Consideration and possible acceptance of a grant from the Arizona Department of Administration in partnership with Adashi, a Versaterm Public Safety company, for the purchase of a Critical Incident Management Suite with necessary hardware, utilizing Arizona State Contract #CTR065363, and a budget adjustment from the grant contingency fund in the amount of $333,167. https://queencreekaz.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=4&clip_id=1729 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/gr-queencreekaz/2025/#m565284 sv:rms:versaterm stated 1 0 0 AZ
4270 4270 Versaterm Mesa AZ 2025-01-27 online police reporting (award contract) 238487.0 The evaluation committee recommends awarding the contract to the highest-scored proposal from Versaterm Public Safety, Inc. (a Mesa business) at $238,487.93 for Year 1 and $153,802.82 annually for software licensing, support and maintenance for Years 2-10. https://legistar1.granicus.com/Mesa/meetings/2025/1/4295_A_City_Council_25-01-27_Meeting_Agenda.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/mesa/2025/#m316385 sv:rms:versaterm proposed 1 0 0 AZ

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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);