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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6 rows where state = "CA" and vendor = "SoundThinking" 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
3823 3823 SoundThinking Oakland CA 2024-09-10 gunshot detection subscription (renew) 2525010.0 Adopt A Resolution Authorizing The City Administrator To (1) Renew The Agreement Which Expired June 30, 2024 With Soundthinking Inc. For Gunshot Location Detection Subscription Service Coverage For Three Years In An Amount Not To Exceed Eight Hundred Forty-One Thousand Six Hundred Seventy Dollars ($841,670) For Each Year For A Total Not To Exceed Two Million Five Hundred Twenty Five Thousand Ten Dollars ($2,525,010) For The Period Beginning July 1, 2024 And Ending June 30, 2027; https://oakland.legistar1.com/oakland/meetings/2024/9/9177_A__Public_Safety_Committee_-_CANCELLED_24-09-10__Agenda.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/oakland/2024/#m146856 sv:gunshot:soundthinking ceiling 1 0 0 CA
3824 3824 SoundThinking Oakland CA 2024-10-08 gunshot detection subscription (renew) 2525010.0 Adopt A Resolution Authorizing The City Administrator To (1) Renew The Agreement Which Expired June 30, 2024 With Soundthinking Inc. For Gunshot Location Detection Subscription Service Coverage For Three Years In An Amount Not To Exceed Eight Hundred Forty-One Thousand Six Hundred Seventy Dollars ($841,670) For Each Year For A Total Not To Exceed Two Million Five Hundred Twenty Five Thousand Ten Dollars ($2,525,010) For The Period Beginning July 1, 2024 And Ending June 30, 2027; https://oakland.legistar1.com/oakland/meetings/2024/10/9193_M__Public_Safety_Committee_24-10-08_Meeting_Minutes.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/oakland/2024/#m146841 sv:gunshot:soundthinking ceiling 2 0 0 CA
3821 3821 SoundThinking Oakland CA 2024-07-11 gunshot detection subscription (renew) 841670.0 Renew The Agreement Which Expired June 30, 2024 With Soundthinking Inc. For Gunshot Location Detection Subscription Service Coverage For Three Years In An Amount Not To Exceed Eight Hundred Forty-One Thousand Six Hundred Seventy Dollars ($841,670) For Each Year https://oakland.legistar1.com/oakland/meetings/2024/7/9150_M__Rules___Legislation_Committee_24-07-11_Meeting_Minutes.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/oakland/2024/#m146879 sv:gunshot:soundthinking ceiling 1 0 0 CA
3562 3562 SoundThinking San Pablo CA 2024-07-01 gunshot detection service (authorize three-year service agreement) 406527.0 AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ENTER INTO A THREE-YEAR SERVICE AGREEMENT WITH SOUNDTHINKING, INC., FORMERLY SHOTSPOTTER, INC., AT A TOTAL COST NOT TO EXCEED $406,527, SUBJECT TO FUNDING AVAILABILITY http://sanpablo.legistar1.com/sanpablo/meetings/2024/7/1469_M_City_Council_24-07-01_Meeting_Minutes.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/sanpablo/2024/#m350577 sv:gunshot:soundthinking ceiling 1 0 0 CA
3563 3563 SoundThinking San Pablo CA 2024-06-26 gunshot detection contract (authorize contract) 406000.0 recommend approval to the City Council to authorize a 3-year contract with Soundthinking, Inc. at an estimated cost of $406,000 which is budgeted within the Police Department FY 2024-25 & FY 2025-26 departmental budget. http://sanpablo.legistar1.com/sanpablo/meetings/2024/6/1506_M_Public_Safety_Standing_Committee_24-06-26_Meeting_Minutes.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/sanpablo/2024/#m350576 sv:gunshot:soundthinking recommended 1 0 0 CA
2984 2984 SoundThinking Montebello CA 2024-03-27 ResourceRouter software (award contract) 88500.0 Authorize the City Manager to execute a professional service agreement with SoundThinking for Subscription Based "ResourceRouter" Resource Management System (Crime Analytics/Mapping Software) for three (3) years for an amount of $88,500; https://montebelloca.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=5793,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/montebelloca/2024/#m782967 sv:gunshot:soundthinking stated 1 0 0 CA

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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);