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.

Data license: CC BY 4.0 · Data source: MyTown

4 rows where state = "MN" and vendor = "LexisNexis / Accurint" 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
3682 3682 LexisNexis / Accurint Duluth MN 2023-01-09 Accurint Virtual Crime Center (renew) 27125.0 RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE EXECUTION OF A RENEWAL AGREEMENT WITH LEXISNEXIS RISK SOLUTIONS FOR AN ONLINE SUBSCRIPTION TO THE ACCURINT VIRTUAL CRIME CENTER WITH TRAX FOR A TERM OF THREE YEARS AT AN ANNUAL COST OF $27,125 TOGETHER WITH AN ANNUAL INCREASE OF FIVE PERCENT PER YEAR. https://duluth-mn.legistar1.com/duluth-mn/meetings/2023/1/2260_M_City_Council_23-01-09_Minutes.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/duluth-mn/2023/#m279095 sv:fusion:lexisnexis stated 1 0 0 MN
3457 3457 LexisNexis / Accurint Cottage Grove MN 2025-02-19 Virtual Crime Center SaaS (approve) 6000.0 Approve the Accurint Virtual Crime Center SaaS in the amount of $6,000 annually. https://cottagegrovemn.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=966,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/cottagegrovemn/2025/#m470459 sv:fusion:lexisnexis stated 1 0 0 MN
3269 3269 LexisNexis / Accurint Grant County MN 2026-07-07 legal-research subscription (pay bills) 4473.0 RELX Inc DBA LexisNexis$4,473.60 https://www.co.grant.mn.us/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_07072026-611 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/co.grant.mn.us/#m590475 sv:fusion:lexisnexis stated 1 1 0 MN
4102 4102 LexisNexis / Accurint Rice County MN 2025-07-22 investigative data product (payment) 2592.0 Law Enforcement Labor Services 2,077.08, LexisNexis Risk Data Management 2,592.80, https://ricecountymn.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=4310,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/ricecountymn/2025/#m780140 sv:fusion:lexisnexis stated 1 0 0 MN

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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);