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 state = "CO" and vendor = "Genetec" 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
3692 3692 Genetec Denver CO 2024-11-18 video surveillance licenses (approve master purchase order) 2225000.0 Approves a master purchase order with Best Products & Service Company LLC for $2,225,000 and for two years with three one-year options to extend to provide Genetec Software Licenses, Support and Training for the video surveillance system at Denver International Airport, in Council District 11 (SC-00009580). https://denver.legistar1.com/denver/meetings/2024/11/9233_M_City_Council_24-11-18_Council_Minutes.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/denver/2024/#m278019 sv:alpr:genetec stated 1 0 0 CO
3693 3693 Genetec Denver CO 2024-11-12 video surveillance licenses (approve master purchase order) 2225000.0 Approves a master purchase order with Best Products & Service Company LLC for $2,225,000 and for two years with three one-year options to extend to provide Genetec Software Licenses, Support and Training for the video surveillance system at Denver International Airport, in Council District 11 (SC-00009580). https://denver.legistar1.com/denver/meetings/2024/11/9227_A_Mayor-Council_24-11-12_Mayor-Council_Agenda.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/denver/2024/#m278014 sv:alpr:genetec stated 2 0 0 CO
3694 3694 Genetec Denver CO 2024-11-06 video surveillance licenses (approve master purchase order) 2225000.0 Approves a master purchase order with Best Products & Service Company LLC for $2,225,000 and for two years with three one-year options to extend to provide Genetec Software Licenses, Support and Training for the video surveillance system at Denver International Airport, in Council District 11 (SC-00009580). https://denver.legistar1.com/denver/meetings/2024/11/9212_M_Business%2C_Arts%2C_Workforce%2C_Climate___Aviation_Services_Committee_24-11-06_Committee_Minutes.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/denver/2024/#m278010 sv:alpr:genetec stated 3 0 0 CO
3714 3714 Genetec Denver CO 2022-03-29 software licenses (amend master purchase order) 1550000.0 Amends a master purchase order with Best Products and Solutions, LLC to add $1,550,000 for a new contract total of $2,000,000 for Genetec software licenses, support, and training to increase camera licensing procurement due to the Concourse Expansion program and Great Hall project at Denver International Airport in Council District 11. https://denver.legistar1.com/denver/meetings/2022/3/7693_M_City_Council_22-03-29_Council_Minutes.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/denver/2022/#m276903 sv:alpr:genetec stated 1 0 0 CO
3715 3715 Genetec Denver CO 2022-03-16 software licenses (amend master purchase order) 1550000.0 Amends a master purchase order with Best Products and Solutions, LLC to add $1,550,000 for a new contract total of $2,000,000 for Genetec software licenses, support, and training to increase camera licensing procurement due to the Concourse Expansion program and Great Hall project at Denver International Airport in Council District 11. https://denver.legistar1.com/denver/meetings/2022/3/7677_M_Business%2C_Arts%2C_Workforce%2C___Aviation_Services_Committee_22-03-16_Committee_Minutes.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/denver/2022/#m276894 sv:alpr:genetec stated 2 0 0 CO

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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);