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 = "IL" and vendor = "LexisNexis / Accurint" 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
3852 3852 LexisNexis / Accurint Aurora IL 2025-12-09 drive test scanner (authorize purchase) 195424.0 A Resolution authorizing the Director of Purchasing to enter into a purchase agreement with LexisNexis for the procurement of a drive test scanner for the Aurora Police Department, in a total amount not to exceed $195,424.00. https://legistar1.granicus.com/aurora-il/meetings/2025/12/4536_M_City_Council_25-12-09_Meeting_Minutes.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/aurora-il/2025/#m74184 sv:fusion:lexisnexis ceiling 1 0 0 IL
2892 2892 LexisNexis / Accurint Decatur IL 2024-03-18 Desk Officer Reporting System (approve contract) 47340.0 It is staff's recommendation that the 3-year quote from Lexis Nexis for the Desk Officer Reporting System for a total of $47,340.00 be approved and executed. https://decaturil.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=1581,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/decaturil/2024/#m863330 sv:fusion:lexisnexis recommended 1 0 0 IL
2644 2644 LexisNexis / Accurint Danville IL 2023-08-01 DORS subscription (approve contract) 23040.0 Chairman Strebing presented a resolution authorizing the 2 Year Contract LexisNexis Desk Officer System (DORS) subscription cost of $23,040.00 funded through DCEO Grant 23-203050. https://www.cityofdanville.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_08012023-65 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/cityofdanville.org/2023/#m1392433 sv:fusion:lexisnexis stated 1 0 0 IL
2645 2645 LexisNexis / Accurint Danville IL 2023-08-15 Desk Officer System subscription (approve contract) 23040.0 RESOLUTION NO. 2023-85 authorizing the 2 Year Contract LexisNexis Desk Officer System (DORS) subscription cost of $23,040.00 funded through DCEO Grant 23-203050. https://www.cityofdanville.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_08152023-66 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/cityofdanville.org/2023/#m1392432 sv:fusion:lexisnexis stated 1 0 0 IL
2647 2647 LexisNexis / Accurint Danville IL 2023-07-25 Desk Officer System (DORS) subscription (authorize contract) 3040.0 Chairman Strebing presented a resolution authorizing the 2 Year Contract LexisNexis Desk Officer System (DORS) subscription cost Of se3,040.00 funded through DCEO Grant 23-203050. https://www.cityofdanville.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_07252023-89 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/cityofdanville.org/2023/#m1392352 sv:fusion:lexisnexis stated 1 0 0 IL

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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);