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 = "GA" and vendor = "Versaterm" 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
4227 4227 Versaterm DeKalb County GA 2024-04-09 IA Pro software (approve purchase) 145694.0 Approve the Purchase of Internal Affairs (IA) Pro Software and Related Services from Versaterm Public Safety US, Inc., not to exceed $145,694.80 https://dekalbcountyga.legistar1.com/dekalbcountyga/meetings/2024/4/3979_A_Board_of_Commissioners_24-04-09_Agenda.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/dekalbcountyga/2024/#m556059 sv:rms:versaterm ceiling 1 0 0 GA
4235 4235 Versaterm McDonough GA 2025-05-01 police camera maintenance (approve invoice) 82032.0 Request for approval to pay the Versaterm annual maintenance invoice for the Police Department's Body Cameras, Dash Cameras, and interview room cameras, in the amount of $82,032.24. https://mcdonoughga.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=2067,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/mcdonoughga/2025/#m530989 sv:rms:versaterm stated 1 0 0 GA
4236 4236 Versaterm McDonough GA 2024-05-02 body and dash cameras maintenance (renew) 73440.0 Request for approval to pay the Versaterm invoice in the amount of $73,440.00, which is the annual maintenance renewal for the Police Department body and dash cameras; https://mcdonoughga.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=1924,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/mcdonoughga/2024/#m530951 sv:rms:versaterm stated 1 0 0 GA
4219 4219 Versaterm Glynn County GA 2025-03-20 IA Pro NextGen software (approve contract) 19482.0 Approve the Versaterm Public Safety US, Inc. agreement for the Glynn County Police Department use of the IA Pro NextGen Software, authorize the issuance of a purchase order utilizing a single source exemption, in the amount for $19,482, and authorize the transfer of $19,482 from operating to capital expenditure budget in the FY25 Police Fund Budget. https://glynncounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=1&clip_id=196 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/gr-glynncounty/2025/#m557169 sv:rms:versaterm stated 1 0 0 GA
4220 4220 Versaterm Glynn County GA 2025-04-17 IA Pro NextGen Software (approve contract) 19482.0 Approve the Versaterm Public Safety US, Inc. agreement for the Glynn County Police Department use of the IA Pro NextGen Software, authorize the issuance of a purchase order utilizing a single source exemption, in the amount for $19,482, and authorize the transfer of $19,482 from operating to capital expenditure budget in the FY25 Police Fund Budget. https://glynncounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=1&clip_id=202 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/gr-glynncounty/2025/#m557166 sv:rms:versaterm 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);