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

3 rows where state = "MS" and vendor = "Fusus (Axon)" 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
2506 2506 Fusus (Axon) Starkville MS 2024-05-07 Fususcores Elite AI camera (purchase) 5000.0 REQUEST APPROVAL TO PURCHASE, FROM PILEUM CORPORATION, AS SOLE SOURCE, A 180 CAMERA FUSUSCORE ELITE AI WITH 44 TB STORAGE AND ONBOARD AI AT A COST OF $5,000.00 PLUS SHIPPING AND HANDLING, IN THAT IT IS COMPATIBLE WITH THE EXISTING FUSUS SYSTEM. https://www.cityofstarkville.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_05072024-922 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/cityofstarkville.org/#m1574566 sv:fusion:fusus stated 1 0 0 MS
2511 2511 Fusus (Axon) Starkville MS 2025-12-02 Fusus Core Elite AI (purchase) 5000.0 REQUEST APPROVAL TO PURCHASE FROM AXON ENTERPRISES, INC A 180 CAMERA, FUSUS CORE ELITE AI 2.0 WITH 44 TB HDD STORAGE AND ONBOARD AI AT A COST OF $5,000.00, PER THE ATTACHED QUOTE. https://www.cityofstarkville.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_12022025-1046 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/cityofstarkville.org/2025/#m1574321 sv:fusion:fusus stated 1 0 0 MS
2502 2502 Fusus (Axon) Starkville MS 2023-07-05 real-time crime center platform (approve attendance) 1200.0 REQUEST APPROVAL FOR LEE UPCHURCH AND BRANDON LOVELADY TO ATTEND THE 2023 FUSUS CUSTOMER SYMPOSIUM IN ARLINGTON, TEXAS IN JULY AT AN APPROXIMATE COST OF $1,200.00. https://www.cityofstarkville.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_07052023-856 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/cityofstarkville.org/2023/#m1574641 sv:fusion:fusus estimated 1 0 0 MS

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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);