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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5 rows where ledger = "sv:student:raptor", state = "KS" and vendor = "Raptor Technologies" 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
4334 4334 Raptor Technologies Shawnee Mission School District KS 2014-11-24 Tracking System (purchase) 87518.0 The superintendent recommends Approval to Purchase Raptor Technologies Tracking System for a total amount of $87,518.00 https://go.boarddocs.com/ks/smsd/Board.nsf/BD-GetMinutes?open&id=9N5UHA659AEC https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/bd-ks-smsd/#m105843 sv:student:raptor recommended 1 1 0 KS
4338 4338 Raptor Technologies Shawnee Mission School District KS 2024-10-14 Visitor Management annual access (renew) 32340.0 The superintendent recommends for approval the purchase of one (1) year Raptor Technologies Visitor Management Annual Access Renewal fee (49 buildings) in the total amount of $32,340.00 from Raptor Technologies LLC. https://go.boarddocs.com/ks/smsd/Board.nsf/BD-GetMinutes?open&id=D8KM7459C59D https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/bd-ks-smsd/#m105567 sv:student:raptor recommended 1 1 0 KS
4337 4337 Raptor Technologies Shawnee Mission School District KS 2019-12-18 Raptor annual access (renew) 25725.0 The superintendent recommends for approval the purchase of (1) year of vSoft Raptor Annual Access Fee Renewal (per location) in the total amount of $25,725.00 from Raptor Technologies. https://go.boarddocs.com/ks/smsd/Board.nsf/BD-GetMinutes?open&id=BJWN9P5E8A8B https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/bd-ks-smsd/#m105740 sv:student:raptor recommended 1 1 0 KS
4336 4336 Raptor Technologies Shawnee Mission School District KS 2018-11-12 visitor screening software (renew) 24195.0 The superintendent recommends for approval the purchase of (1) year of vSoft Raptor Annual Access Fee Renewal (per location) in the total amount of $24,195.00 from Raptor Technologies. https://go.boarddocs.com/ks/smsd/Board.nsf/BD-GetMinutes?open&id=B5DS5D6B870C https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/bd-ks-smsd/#m105769 sv:student:raptor recommended 1 1 0 KS
4335 4335 Raptor Technologies Shawnee Mission School District KS 2017-11-27 Raptor Annual Access Fee (renew) 23265.0 The interim superintendent recommends for approval the purchase of one (1) year of vSoft Raptor Annual Access Fee Renewal (per location) in the total amount of $23,265.00 from Raptor Technologies. https://go.boarddocs.com/ks/smsd/Board.nsf/BD-GetMinutes?open&id=ARCHY54AB918 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/bd-ks-smsd/#m105790 sv:student:raptor recommended 1 1 0 KS

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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);