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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7 rows where state = "KS" and vendor = "Cellebrite" 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
3424 3424 Cellebrite Junction City KS 2025-03-18 JCPD subscription (renew) 45346.0 Consideration of the request to renew the JCPD subscription with Cellebrite in the amount of $45,346.44. https://junctioncityks.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=2325,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/junctioncityks/2025/#m529997 sv:forensics:cellebrite stated 1 0 0 KS
2626 2626 Cellebrite Westmoreland KS 2026-03-05 mobile forensics software (renew) 36900.0 Renewal of License Agreement with Cellebrite, Inc., approved April 13, 2023 for software subscription for the term June 7, 2026 through June 6, 2027 for data retrieval and analysis to conduct investigations the amount of $36,900.00 https://www.westmorelandcountypa.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_03052026-693 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/westmorelandcountypa.gov/#m1398003 sv:forensics:cellebrite stated 1 0 0 KS
2620 2620 Cellebrite Westmoreland KS 2024-02-08 UFED software subscription (renew) 36575.0 (C) Renewal of License Agr eement with Cellebrite, Inc., approved April 13, 2023 for software subscription for the term June 7, 2024 through June 6, 2025 for data retrieval and analysis of android devices in the amount of $36,575.00 (Local Law Enforcement PCCD Grant) https://www.westmorelandcountypa.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_02082024-416 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/westmorelandcountypa.gov/#m1398377 sv:forensics:cellebrite stated 1 0 0 KS
3422 3422 Cellebrite Junction City KS 2026-03-17 mobile device forensics subscription (renew) 35657.0 Consideration of the budgeted renewal of the JCPD'S subscription of Cellebrite, used for mobile device forensic services in the amount of $35,657.26. https://junctioncityks.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=2833,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/junctioncityks/#m530036 sv:forensics:cellebrite stated 1 0 0 KS
2623 2623 Cellebrite Westmoreland KS 2025-03-06 mobile forensics subscription (renew) 35020.0 Renewal of License Agreement with Cellebrite, Inc., approved April 13, 2023 for software subscription for the term June 7, 202 5 through June 6, 202 6 for data retrieval and analysis of android devices in the amount of $35,020.00 (Local Law Enforcement PCCD Grant) https://www.westmorelandcountypa.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_03062025-544 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/westmorelandcountypa.gov/2025/#m1398180 sv:forensics:cellebrite stated 1 0 0 KS
2618 2618 Cellebrite Westmoreland KS 2023-04-13 UFED software subscription (license agreement) 34860.0 (G ) License Agreement with Cellebrite, Inc. for software subscription effective May 1, 2023 data retrevial and analysis of android devices in the amount of $34,860.00 (funded by Local Law Enforcement PCCD Grant ) https://www.westmorelandcountypa.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_04132023-320 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/westmorelandcountypa.gov/2023/#m1398503 sv:forensics:cellebrite stated 1 0 0 KS
3426 3426 Cellebrite Junction City KS 2021-09-21 mobile forensics software (budget) 32500.0 Joshua Douglass $2,500.00, HDR $325,809.29, Wex Bank $23,733.36, Axon Enterprises $3,198.00, Cellebrite $32,500.00, Vogts Parga $296,607.30 and Valor CDJR $39,255.01. https://junctioncityks.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=915,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/junctioncityks/2021/#m529834 sv:forensics:cellebrite stated 1 0 0 KS

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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);