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 = "Clearview AI" 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
3784 3784 Clearview AI Tampa FL 2025-10-09 Clearview Search Pro (amend) 238062.0 Resolution approving a first amendment to the Clearview AI Renewal Order Form between the City of Tampa and Clearview AI, Inc., for the purchase of Clearview Search Pro in the amount of $238,062 for use by the Tampa Police Department; https://tampagov.hylandcloud.com/251agendaonline/Documents/DownloadFileBytes/City_Council_Regular_-_October_9%2C_2025_2608_Minutes_10_9_2025_9_00_00_AM.pdf?documentType=2&meetingId=2608 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/ob-tampa-fl/2025/#m213529 sv:face:clearview stated 1 0 0 FL
3789 3789 Clearview AI Tampa FL 2024-11-07 Clearview Search Pro (approve sole source agreement) 27295.0 Resolution approving a Sole Source Agreement between the City of Tampa and Clearview AI, Inc., for the purchase of Clearview Search Pro in the amount of $27,295 for use by the Tampa Police Department; authorizing the Mayor to execute said agreement; providing an effective date. https://tampagov.hylandcloud.com/251agendaonline/Documents/DownloadFileBytes/City_Council_Regular_Addendum_2531_Agenda_11_7_2024_9_00_00_AM.pdf?documentType=1&meetingId=2531 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/ob-tampa-fl/2024/#m213374 sv:face:clearview stated 1 0 0 FL
3790 3790 Clearview AI Tampa FL 2024-11-07 Clearview Search Pro (approve contract) 27295.0 Resolution approving a Sole Source Agreement between the City of Tampa and Clearview AI, Inc., for the purchase of Clearview Search Pro in the amount of $27,295 for use by the Tampa Police Department; https://tampagov.hylandcloud.com/251agendaonline/Documents/DownloadFileBytes/City_Council_REGULAR_-_November_7%2C_2024_2480_Minutes_11_7_2024_9_00_00_AM.pdf?documentType=2&meetingId=2480 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/ob-tampa-fl/2024/#m213373 sv:face:clearview stated 2 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);