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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2 rows where state = "MI" and vendor = "Securus Technologies" 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
3271 3271 Securus Technologies Genesee County MI 2025-01-15 electronic monitoring services (approve contract) 50000.0 Approval of a contract between Genesee County and Securus Monitoring, in the amount of $50,000.00, to provide for electronic monitoring services; the term of this contract is from October 1, 2024, through September 30, 2025; the cost of this contract will be paid from account 2920-664.00-868.020 https://geneseecountymi.legistar1.com/geneseecountymi/meetings/2025/1/3144_M_Board_of_County_Commissioners_25-01-15_Meeting_Minutes.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/geneseecountymi/2025/#m587584 sv:jail:securus stated 1 0 0 MI
4011 4011 Securus Technologies Otsego County MI 2024-03-12 inmate phone purchase (purchase) 4957.0 4,957.00 101-351-850.000-INMT000000 INMATE PHONE PURCHASE SECURUS TECHNOLOGIES T-NETIX 17828 APSSB 03/12/2024 https://www.otsegocountymi.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_03122024-1071 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/otsegocountymi.gov/2024/#m1407264 sv:jail:securus stated 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);