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 = "MO" and vendor = "Flock Group, Inc." 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
2228 2228 Flock Group, Inc. Fenton MO 2024-02-01 forward to board meeting a proposed 5-year renewal 52500.0 Per Flock at that time, renewal for another one-year term for the twenty-one (21) LPRs would be at the same cost as 2022 at $2,500 per camera, for a total of $52,500, but it was noted that at that time that the rates would increase to $3,000 at the next renewal (2024). https://www.fentonmo.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_02012024-580 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/fentonmo.org/#m1463474 flock stated 1 0 0 MO
2229 2229 Flock Group, Inc. Fenton MO 2023-10-05 considered renewal 52500.0 Per Flock at that time, renewal for another one-year term for the twenty-one (21) LPRs would be at the same cost as 2022 at $2,500 per camera, for a total of $52,500 https://www.fentonmo.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_10052023-550 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/fentonmo.org/#m1463515 flock stated 1 0 0 MO
2230 2230 Flock Group, Inc. Fenton MO 2023-03-09 discussed renewal options 52500.0 Per Flock at that time, renewal for another one-year term for the twenty-one (21) LPRs will be at the same cost as 2022 at $2,500 per camera, or $52,500. https://www.fentonmo.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_03092023-498 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/fentonmo.org/2023/#m1463541 flock stated 1 0 0 MO
2231 2231 Flock Group, Inc. Fenton MO 2023-02-02 forwarded to Board of Aldermen meeting for consideration of renewal 52500.0 Per Flock, renewal for another one-year term for the twenty-one (21) LPRs will be at the same cost as 2022 at $2,500 per camera, or $52,500. https://www.fentonmo.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_02022023-489 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/fentonmo.org/2023/#m1463546 flock stated 1 0 0 MO
2227 2227 Flock Group, Inc. Fenton MO 2024-02-08 forward to board meeting a proposed 5-year renewal 2500.0 A representative from Flock Safety is in attendance to follow-up with information as requested from the February 1* Board meeting regarding locking in $2,500 per camera rate of a proposed 5-year renewal with Flock Group, Inc. https://www.fentonmo.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_02082024-583 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/fentonmo.org/#m1463472 flock proposed 1 0 0 MO

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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);