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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3 rows where state = "FL" and vendor = "BRINC Drones" 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
3792 3792 BRINC Drones Coral Springs FL 2025-06-24 Indoor Tactical Drones (award contract) 84996.0 Request to award contract 25 -A-231NC to purchase Indoor Tactical Drones from Brinc Drones, Inc. of Seattle, Washington on a sole source basis for a total amount of $84,996; and to authorize the purchasing manager to approve change orders that are within the designated procurement authority up to $75,000. https://coralsprings.granicus.com/MinutesViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=267 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/gr-coralsprings/2025/#m210568 sv:drone:brinc ceiling 1 0 0 FL
3727 3727 BRINC Drones Coral Gables FL 2024-08-27 Lemur 2 drone (authorize purchase) 59997.0 authorize the purchase of a Lemur 2 drone from Brinc Drones Inc. as a “Sole Source Procurement,” in an estimated amount of $ 59,997.00 https://coralgables.legistar1.com/coralgables/meetings/2024/8/4456_M_City_Commission_24-08-27_Meeting_Minutes.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/coralgables/2024/#m266884 sv:drone:brinc estimated 1 0 0 FL
3603 3603 BRINC Drones Pinellas Park FL 2023-08-24 two small drones (purchase) 30648.0 Two (2) small drones will be purchased from Brinc Drones, Inc. for a total of $ 30,648.00. https://pinellaspark.legistar1.com/pinellaspark/meetings/2023/8/1543_A_City_Council_23-08-24_Agenda.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/pinellaspark/2023/#m334598 sv:drone:brinc stated 1 0 0 FL

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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);