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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4 rows where state = "GA" and vendor = "Carbyne" 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
4065 4065 Carbyne Roswell GA 2024-11-26 APEX 911 Phone System (award contract) 247687.0 Consideration To Implement The Carbyne APEX 911 Phone System In The New 911 Center in the amount of $247,687.20 https://roswellcityga.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=15&ID=2639&Inline=True https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/iq-roswellcityga/2024/#m876040 sv:other:carbyne stated 1 0 0 GA
3018 3018 Carbyne Douglas County GA 2024-03-05 Next Generation-911 tech (renew) 12485.0 Authorization for Douglas County E-911 to renew a contract with Carbyne c-Live Universe and Responder Connect for Next Generation-911 public safety technology that improves situational awareness during emergency and non-emergency calls for service in the amount of $12,485.00 to be funded from the E-911 2024 budget, effective April 1, 2024, through March 31, 2025, and authorize Chairman to sign all related documents pending legal review. https://douglascountyga.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=6294,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/douglascountyga/2024/#m752109 sv:other:carbyne stated 1 0 0 GA
3019 3019 Carbyne Douglas County GA 2023-02-21 911 call handling (renew) 9500.0 Approval of contract renewal with Carbyne c-Live Universe in the amount of $9,500.00 to be funded by E-911's 2023 budget, effective April 1, 2023, through March 31, 2024, and authorize the Chairman to sign all related documents pending final legal review. https://douglascountyga.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=5878,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/douglascountyga/2023/#m752036 sv:other:carbyne stated 1 0 0 GA
3020 3020 Carbyne Douglas County GA 2023-02-20 911 call handling (renew contract) 9500.0 Approval of contract renewal with Carbyne c-Live Universe in the amount of $9,500.00 to be funded by E-911's 2023 budget, effective April 1, 2023, through March 31, 2024, and authorize the Chairman to sign all related documents pending final legal review. https://douglascountyga.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=5873,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/douglascountyga/2023/#m752034 sv:other:carbyne stated 2 0 0 GA

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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);