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 = "LA" and vendor = "WatchGuard Video" 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
3873 3873 WatchGuard Video Kenner LA 2026-06-11 WatchGuard Authpoint licenses (accept lowest responsive bid) 8416.0 An ordinance accepting the lowest responsive bid received from Govconnection, Inc. for the purchase of 691 Watchguard Authpoint License Renewal in accordance with Electronic Bid 26-3089 in an mount not to exceed $8,416.38 for the Information Technology and Telecommunications Department. https://www.kenner.la.us/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06112026-537 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/kenner.la.us/#m21032 sv:bodycam:watchguard ceiling 1 0 0 LA
3874 3874 WatchGuard Video Kenner LA 2026-06-12 Authpoint licenses (accept bid) 8416.0 an ordinance accepting the lowest responsive bid received from Govconnection, Inc. for the purchase of 691 Watchguard Authpoint License Renewal in accordance with Electronic Bid 26-3089 in an mount not to exceed $8,416.38 for the Information Technology and Telecommunications Department. https://www.kenner.la.us/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06122026-539 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/kenner.la.us/#m21031 sv:bodycam:watchguard ceiling 1 0 0 LA
3875 3875 WatchGuard Video Kenner LA 2026-06-26 Authpoint licenses (accept bid) 8416.0 an ordinance accepting the lowest responsive bid received from Govconnection, Inc. for the purchase of 691 Watchguard Authpoint License Renewal in accordance with Electronic Bid 26-3089 in an mount not to exceed $8,416.38 for the Information Technology and Telecommunications Department. https://www.kenner.la.us/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06262026-546 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/kenner.la.us/#m21030 sv:bodycam:watchguard ceiling 2 0 0 LA
3876 3876 WatchGuard Video Kenner LA 2026-06-26 Authpoint License Renewal (accept lowest responsive bid) 8416.0 Summary Ordinance No. 14,162, an ordinance accepting the lowest responsive bid received from Govconnection, Inc. for the purchase of 691 Watchguard Authpoint License Renewal in accordance with Electronic Bid 26-3089 in an mount not to exceed $8,416.38 for the Information Technology and Telecommunications Department. https://www.kenner.la.us/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06262026-542 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/kenner.la.us/#m21028 sv:bodycam:watchguard ceiling 1 0 0 LA
2665 2665 WatchGuard Video Kenner LA 2025-06-05 Authpoint licenses (accept lowest responsive bid) 8139.0 accepting the lowest responsive bid received from Restech for the purchase of 691 Watchguard Authpoint License Renewal in accordance with Electronic Bid 25-3019 in an amount not to exceed $8,139.98 for the Information Technology and Telecommunications Department. https://www.kenner.la.us/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06052025-416 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/kenner.la.us/2025/#m1382131 sv:bodycam:watchguard ceiling 1 0 0 LA
2666 2666 WatchGuard Video Kenner LA 2025-06-20 Authpoint licenses (accept lowest responsive bid) 8139.0 Summary Ordinance No. 13,850, an ordinance accepting the lowest responsive bid received from Restech for the purchase of 691 Watchguard Authpoint License Renewal in accordance with Electronic Bid 25-3019 in an amount not to exceed $8,139.98 for the Information Technology and Telecommunications Department. https://www.kenner.la.us/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06202025-417 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/kenner.la.us/2025/#m1382128 sv:bodycam:watchguard ceiling 1 0 0 LA

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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);