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

2 rows where state = "CO" and vendor = "Tyler Technologies (public safety)" 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
3887 3887 Tyler Technologies (public safety) Brighton CO 2026-04-07 police records management system (approve procurement and authorize contract execution) 734340.0 ACCEPTING THE PROPOSAL OF TYLER TECHNOLOGIES, INC. AND APPROVING THE PROCUREMENT OF THE BRIGHTON POLICE DEPARTMENT RECORDS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR THE CONTRACT AMOUNT OF SEVEN HUNDRED THIRTY-FOUR THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED FORTY DOLLARS ($734,340), AND AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE THE CONTRACT ON BEHALF OF THE CITY https://www.brightonco.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_04072026-2054 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/brightonco/#m12413 sv:rms:tyler_ps proposed 1 0 0 CO
3906 3906 Tyler Technologies (public safety) Brighton CO 2026-04-07 police records management (approve contract) 734340.0 ACCEPTING THE PROPOSAL OF TYLER TECHNOLOGIES, INC. AND APPROVING THE PROCUREMENT OF THE BRIGHTON POLICE DEPARTMENT RECORDS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR THE CONTRACT AMOUNT OF SEVEN HUNDRED THIRTY-FOUR THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED FORTY DOLLARS ($734,340), AND AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE THE CONTRACT ON BEHALF OF THE CITY https://brightonco.legistar1.com/brightonco/meetings/2026/4/1627_A_City_Council_26-04-07_Meeting_Agenda.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/brightonco/#m4572 sv:rms:tyler_ps proposed 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);