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 = "MI" and vendor = "FLOCK" 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
1804 1804 FLOCK Genesee County MI 2026-02-04 approval of a purchase order to renew services 60000.0 Approval of a purchase order to FLOCK, in an amount not to exceed $60,000.00, to renew the services for hardware and software products for twenty (20) FLOCK Safety Falcon Cameras; the term of this coverage is from October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2026; the cost of this purchase is partially grant-funded and will be paid from account 2856-310.00-801.000 https://geneseecountymi.legistar1.com/geneseecountymi/meetings/2026/2/3330_M_Board_of_County_Commissioners_26-02-04_Meeting_Minutes.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/geneseecountymi/#m587426 flock ceiling 1 0 0 MI
1805 1805 FLOCK Genesee County MI 2026-03-18 approve purchase order 60000.0 Approval of a purchase order to FLOCK, in an amount not to exceed $ 60,000.00, to renew the services for hardware and software products for twenty ( 20) FLOCK Safety Falcon Cameras; the term of this coverage is from October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2026; the cost of this purchase is partially grant-funded and will be paid from account 2856-310.00-801.000 https://geneseecountymi.legistar1.com/geneseecountymi/meetings/2026/3/3268_M_Board_of_County_Commissioners_26-03-18_Meeting_Minutes.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/geneseecountymi/#m587463 flock ceiling 1 0 0 MI
1806 1806 FLOCK Genesee County MI 2026-03-11 approve purchase order to renew services 60000.0 Approval of a purchase order to FLOCK, in an amount not to exceed $60,000.00, to renew the services for hardware and software products for twenty (20) FLOCK Safety Falcon Cameras; the term of this coverage is from October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2026; the cost of this purchase is partially grant-funded and will be paid from account 2856-310.00-801.000 https://geneseecountymi.legistar1.com/geneseecountymi/meetings/2026/3/3265_M_Governmental_Operations_Committee_26-03-11_Meeting_Minutes.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/geneseecountymi/#m587466 flock ceiling 2 0 0 MI
1807 1807 FLOCK Genesee County MI 2026-01-28 approve purchase order 60000.0 Approval of a purchase order to FLOCK, in an amount not to exceed $ 60,000.00, to renew the services for hardware and software products for twenty ( 20) FLOCK Safety Falcon Cameras; the term of this coverage is from October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2026; the cost of this purchase is fully grant-funded and will be paid from account 2856-310.00-801.000 https://geneseecountymi.legistar1.com/geneseecountymi/meetings/2026/1/3256_M_Board_of_County_Commissioners_26-01-28_Meeting_Minutes.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/geneseecountymi/#m587475 flock ceiling 1 0 0 MI
1808 1808 FLOCK Genesee County MI 2026-01-21 approve purchase order 60000.0 Approval of a purchase order to FLOCK, in an amount not to exceed $60,000.00, to renew the services for hardware and software products for twenty (20) FLOCK Safety Falcon Cameras; the term of this coverage is from October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2026; the cost of this purchase is fully grant-funded and will be paid from account 2856-310.00-801.000 https://geneseecountymi.legistar1.com/geneseecountymi/meetings/2026/1/3253_M_Governmental_Operations_Committee_26-01-21_Meeting_Minutes.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/geneseecountymi/#m587478 flock ceiling 1 0 0 MI

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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);