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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6 rows where state = "MS" and vendor = "Utility Associates" 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
2512 2512 Utility Associates Starkville MS 2026-01-20 body cameras & in-car video (renew) 790000.0 REQUEST APPROVAL TO RENEW THE (5) YEAR LEASE SOFTWARE AGREEMENT WITH UTILITY ASSOCIATES, INC FOR BODY WORN CAMERAS, ACCESSORIES AND IN- CAR VIDEO EQUIPMENT IN THE AMOUNT OF $790,000.00 OVER (5) YEARS FROM APRIL 1, 2026 – MARCH 31, 2031. https://www.cityofstarkville.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_01202026-1054 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/cityofstarkville.org/#m1574266 sv:bodycam:utility_assoc stated 1 0 0 MS
2509 2509 Utility Associates Starkville MS 2021-03-02 body cameras and in-car video (lease agreement) 621600.0 CONSIDERATION OF THE LEASE AGREEMENT WITH UTILITY ASSOCIATES, INC FOR BODY WORN COMERAS, ACCESSORIES AND IN-CAR VIDEO EQUIP MENT IN THE AMOUNT OF $621,600.00 OVER FIVE YEARS TO BE MADE BEGINNING APRIL OF 2021 AND TO MAKE THE NECESSARY BUDGET ADJUSTMENT. https://www.cityofstarkville.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_03022021-640 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/cityofstarkville.org/2021/#m1574522 sv:bodycam:utility_assoc stated 1 0 0 MS
4081 4081 Utility Associates Byram MS 2024-01-11 body cameras (renew) 79078.0 M100752 BODYWORN ANNUAL RENEWAL YEAR Invoice 12/01/2023 BODYWORN ANNUAL RENEWAL YEAR 001-200-640 79,078.00 https://byramms.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=98,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/byramms/2024/#m825755 sv:bodycam:utility_assoc stated 1 0 0 MS
2505 2505 Utility Associates Starkville MS 2024-04-02 Rocket IoT in-car video (purchase) 45821.0 REQUEST APPROVAL TO PURCHASE FROM UTILITY ASSOCIATES, INC AS A SOLE SOURCE PROVIDER AND COMPATIBLE WITH EXISTING SYSTEMS, 7 ROCKET IN-CAR VIDEO SAAS – COTERMINOUS WITH EXISTING AGREEMENT: 5/1/2024 THROUGH 3/31/2026 (23 MONTHS) AND 7 ROCKET IN -CAR VIDEO HAAS AT A TOTAL COST OF $45,821.10. https://www.cityofstarkville.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_04022024-916 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/cityofstarkville.org/#m1574570 sv:bodycam:utility_assoc stated 1 0 0 MS
2504 2504 Utility Associates Starkville MS 2023-12-19 body camera systems (purchase) 36882.0 REQUEST APPROVAL TO PURCHASE 12 ADDITIONAL EOS INTELLIGENT BODY CAMERA SYSTEMS (CRADLE SYSTEMS WITH WATCHES AND HOLSTER SENSORS) IN THE AMOUNT OF $36,882.90 FROM UTILITY ASSOCIATES, INC, WHO IS THE SOLE SOURCE SUPPLIER AND IS COMPATIBLE WITH THE EXISTING SYSTEM. https://www.cityofstarkville.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_12192023-890 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/cityofstarkville.org/#m1574620 sv:bodycam:utility_assoc stated 1 0 0 MS
3948 3948 Utility Associates Starkville MS 2024-06-04 Rocket IoT in-car video (purchase) 18908.0 REQUEST APPROVAL TO PURCHASE FROM UTILITY ASSOCIATES, INC AS A SOLE SOURCE PROVIDER AND COMPATIBLE WITH EXISTING SYSTEMS, 3 ROCKET IN-CAR VIDEO SAAS – COTERMINOUS WITH EXISTING AGREEMENT: 5/1/2024 THROUGH 3/31/2026 (23 MONTHS) AND 3 ROCKET IN -CAR VIDEO HAAS AT A TOTAL COST OF $18,908.76 FROM THE CAPITAL OUTLAY CAR ROCKET CAMERA SYSTEM LINE ITEM. https://www.cityofstarkville.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_06042024-930 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/cityofstarkville.org/2024/#m1574562 sv:bodycam:utility_assoc stated 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);