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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6 rows where state = "KS" and vendor = "OpenEye" 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
4390 4390 OpenEye Unified School District 497 KS 2025-07-14 OpenEye surveillance software (renew) 43200.0 "I move the Board of Education approve the renewal purchase from American Digital Security of OpenEye Video Surveillance Management Software, which supports the district's video security cameras, at an estimated cost of $43,200, to be paid from the facilities and operations safety and security capital outlay fund." https://go.boarddocs.com/ks/usd497/Board.nsf/BD-GetMinutes?open&id=DGXQG3692E10 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/bd-ks-usd497/#m133098 sv:camera:openeye estimated 1 1 0 KS
4389 4389 OpenEye Unified School District 497 KS 2023-09-11 video surveillance software (renew) 36550.0 "I move the Board of Education approve the renewal purchase from American Digital Security of OpenEye Video Surveillance Management Software used for the district's video security cameras in the amount of $36,550.80 to be paid from the Facilities and Operations Safety and Security Capital Outlay Fund." https://go.boarddocs.com/ks/usd497/Board.nsf/BD-GetMinutes?open&id=CULMUL5B4D4F https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/bd-ks-usd497/2023/#m133155 sv:camera:openeye stated 1 1 0 KS
4386 4386 OpenEye Unified School District 497 KS 2021-07-12 video surveillance software (approve contract) 33000.0 I move the Board of Education approve the Open Eye Video Surveillance Management Software used for the district's video security cameras with ADS (American Digital Security) in the amount of $33,000 to be paid from the Facilities and Operations Safety and Security Capital Outlay Fund. https://go.boarddocs.com/ks/usd497/Board.nsf/BD-GetMinutes?open&id=C4GJTX4DD773 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/bd-ks-usd497/2021/#m133229 sv:camera:openeye stated 1 1 0 KS
4388 4388 OpenEye Unified School District 497 KS 2022-11-14 video surveillance software (renew) 31704.0 "I move the Board of Education approve the renewal purchase from American Digital Security of OpenEye Video Surveillance Management Software used for the district's video security cameras in the amount of $31,704 to be paid from the Facilities and Operations Safety and Security Capital Outlay Fund." https://go.boarddocs.com/ks/usd497/Board.nsf/PRINT-AgendaDetailed?open&id=CKSUPH7D051F https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/bd-ks-usd497/2022/#m133183 sv:camera:openeye stated 1 1 0 KS
4385 4385 OpenEye Unified School District 497 KS 2021-06-14 video surveillance software (approve purchase) 31200.0 "I move the Board of Education approve the Open Eye Video Surveillance Management Software used for the district's video security cameras with ADS (American Digital Security) in the amount of $31,200 to be paid from the Facilities and Operations Safety and Security Capital Outlay Fund." https://go.boarddocs.com/ks/usd497/Board.nsf/BD-GetMinutes?open&id=BWXLTR54D0DD https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/bd-ks-usd497/2021/#m133231 sv:camera:openeye stated 1 1 0 KS
4387 4387 OpenEye Unified School District 497 KS 2021-09-27 video surveillance software (purchase) 2880.0 "I move the Board of Education approve the purchase of additional Open Eye Video Surveillance Management Software used for the district's video security cameras with ADS (American Digital Security) in the amount of $2,880 for a total cost of $35,880 to be paid from the Facilities and Operations Safety and Security Capital Outlay Fund." https://go.boarddocs.com/ks/usd497/Board.nsf/BD-GetMinutes?open&id=C72JJK4D6CB8 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/bd-ks-usd497/2021/#m133223 sv:camera:openeye stated 1 1 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);