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

5 rows where ledger = "sv:student:navigate360" 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
4341 4341 Navigate360 East Baton Rouge Parish School System LA 2021-09-09 Emergency Management Suite subscription (approve contract) 81000.0 Approval of a professional services contract between the East Baton Rouge Parish School System and Navigate360 in the amount of $81,000.00 for Emergency Management Suite Platform subscription. https://go.boarddocs.com/la/ebrp/Board.nsf/BD-GetMinutes?open&id=C55V8T7F8E7E https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/bd-la-ebrp/2021/#m98888 sv:student:navigate360 stated 1 1 0 LA
4342 4342 Navigate360 East Baton Rouge Parish School System LA 2021-09-16 Emergency Management Suite subscription (approve contract) 81000.0 Approval of a professional services contract between the East Baton Rouge Parish School System and Navigate360 in the amount of $81,000.00 for Emergency Management Suite Platform subscription. https://go.boarddocs.com/la/ebrp/Board.nsf/BD-GetMinutes?open&id=C67KSN5242E2 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/bd-la-ebrp/2021/#m98887 sv:student:navigate360 stated 2 1 0 LA
3929 3929 Navigate360 Knox County TN 2025-09-11 PBIS rewards system (approve contract) 4623.0 Approve Master Services Agreement with Navigate360, LLC for provision of a PBIS rewards system at West High School for the term of July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026 at a cost of $4,623.75 https://public.destinyhosted.com/agenda_publish.cfm?id=56697&mt=ALL&get_month=9&get_year=2025&dsp=min&seq=790 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/aq-56697/2025/#m6748357 sv:student:navigate360 stated 1 1 0 TN
4114 4114 Navigate360 Marshalltown IA 2025-11-24 threat assessment system (purchase) 4100.0 Navigate360 LLC/1 4,100.00 https://marshalltownia.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=3403,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/marshalltownia/2025/#m774494 sv:student:navigate360 stated 1 0 0 IA
4048 4048 Navigate360 Teton County WY 2025-03-21 threat assessment system (payment of voucher) 1498.0 NAVIGATE360, LLC 1,498.00 https://www.tetoncountywy.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_03212025-2626 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/tetoncountywy.gov/2025/#m1199440 sv:student:navigate360 stated 1 0 0 WY

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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);