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 = "Idemia" 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
3392 3392 Idemia Jackson County MO 2024-09-23 fingerprint workstations and scanners (award contract) 67039.0 Awarding a contract for the furnishing of fingerprint booking workstations and handheld identification scanners for use by the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office to Idemia Identity & Security USA, LLC, of Anaheim, California, under the terms and conditions of the State of Missouri Contract No. CT211966001, an existing competitively bid government contract, at an actual cost to the County in the amount of $67,039.00. https://jacksonco.legistar1.com/jacksoncounty/meetings/2024/9/9592_M_County_Legislature_24-09-23_JOURNAL.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/jacksonco/2024/#m551010 sv:face:idemia stated 1 0 0 MO
3393 3393 Idemia Jackson County MO 2024-09-30 fingerprint booking workstations and handheld identification scanners (award contract) 67039.0 A RESOLUTION awarding a contract for the furnishing of fingerprint booking workstations and handheld identification scanners for use by the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office to Idemia Identity & Security USA, LLC, of Anaheim, California, under the terms and conditions of the State of Missouri Contract No. CT211966001, an existing competitively bid government contract, at an actual cost to the County in the amount of $67,039.00. https://jacksonco.legistar1.com/jacksoncounty/meetings/2024/9/9611_M_County_Legislature_24-09-30_JOURNAL.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/jacksonco/2024/#m551001 sv:face:idemia stated 1 0 0 MO
2802 2802 Idemia St. Joseph MO 2024-04-15 Livescan booking workstations (amend budget) 35876.0 authorizing an amendment to the General Fund Police Department budget in the amount of $35,876.00 to roll forward available restricted fund balance into Fiscal Year 2023-2024 to be used for the purchase of two (2) Livescan booking and applicant workstations and printers from Idemia https://www.stjosephmo.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_04152024-2863 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/stjosephmo.gov/#m1215587 sv:face:idemia stated 1 0 0 MO
2803 2803 Idemia St. Joseph MO 2024-04-29 Livescan booking workstations (amend budget) 35876.0 authorizing an amendment to the General Fund Police Department budget in the amount of $35,876.00 to roll forward available restricted fund balance into Fiscal Year 2023-2024 to be used for the purchase of two (2) Livescan booking and applicant workstations and printers from Idemia https://www.stjosephmo.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_04292024-2878 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/stjosephmo.gov/#m1215586 sv:face:idemia stated 2 0 0 MO
2614 2614 Idemia Cole County MO 2023-09-12 Maintenance and Support Agreement (approve contract) 3594.0 Commissioner Otto made a motion to sign the Idemia Maintenance and Support Agreement for the Sheriff's Dept. for $3,594.00. https://www.colecounty.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_09122023-2250 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/colecounty.org/2023/#m1407821 sv:face:idemia stated 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);