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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10 rows where state = "NC" and vendor = "CentralSquare" 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
3533 3533 CentralSquare Winston-Salem NC 2024-03-04 software maintenance (award contract) 375000.0 Resolution Awarding the Contract for Annual Software Maintenance and Support - CentralSquare Technologies, LLC - $375,000 https://winston-salem.legistar1.com/winston-salem/meetings/2024/3/2602_M_City_Council_24-03-04_Summary.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/winston-salem/2024/#m365351 sv:rms:centralsquare stated 1 0 0 NC
3534 3534 CentralSquare Winston-Salem NC 2024-02-12 software maintenance (award contract) 375000.0 Resolution Awarding the Contract for Annual Software Maintenance and Support - CentralSquare Technologies, LLC - $375,000 https://winston-salem.legistar1.com/winston-salem/meetings/2024/2/2598_M_Public_Safety_Committee_24-02-12_Summary.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/winston-salem/2024/#m365347 sv:rms:centralsquare stated 2 0 0 NC
2589 2589 CentralSquare Hope Mills NC 2024-07-05 RMS software (approve contract) 296250.0 Motion by Commissioner Legge, seconded by Commissioner Craver and carried unanimously to approve the contract with Central Square and to authorize the Town Manager to execute contract with the corresponding budget amendment in the amount of $296,250. https://www.townofhopemills.com/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_07052024-733 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/townofhopemills.com/2024/#m1456519 sv:rms:centralsquare stated 1 0 0 NC
3253 3253 CentralSquare Durham County NC 2026-05-04 CAD/RMS support (approve contract) 226203.0 Approval of Contract with Tritech Software Systems, a CentralSquare Technologies Company (CentralSquare Technology) in the Amount of $ 226,203 for Computer -Aided Dispatch and Report Management Systems for the Sheriff’s Office https://durhamcounty.legistar1.com/durhamcounty/meetings/2026/5/1452_A_Board_of_County_Commissioners_26-05-04_Meeting_Agenda.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/durhamcounty/#m600097 sv:rms:centralsquare stated 1 0 0 NC
2905 2905 CentralSquare Mooresboro NC 2025-10-06 OneSolution software (renew) 182596.0 • CentralSquare Technologies, LLC - $182,596.62 for the yearly renewal of OneSolution Software for Mooresville Police Department https://mooresvillenc.granicus.com/MinutesViewer.php?view_id=1&clip_id=576 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/gr-mooresvillenc/2025/#m834209 sv:rms:centralsquare stated 1 1 0 NC
2903 2903 CentralSquare Mooresboro NC 2025-01-21 CAD-to-CAD Unify (Cloud) Annual Subscription (amend) 106138.0 Approved a request from IT to adopt a Resolution and the corresponding budget amendment approving Addendum #6 to a Master Services Agreement with CentralSquare Technologies, LLC for CAD-to-CAD Unify (Cloud) Annual Subscription in the amount of $106,138.71. https://mooresvillenc.granicus.com/MinutesViewer.php?view_id=1&clip_id=527 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/gr-mooresvillenc/2025/#m834249 sv:rms:centralsquare stated 1 1 0 NC
2811 2811 CentralSquare Durham NC 2025-08-18 CAD-to-CAD cloud subscription (authorize contract) 58015.0 authorize the City Manager to execute a sales order contract with Central Square Technologies, LLC for the implementation of CAD-to-CAD cloud subscription services in an amount not to exceed $58,015.00 https://www.durhamnc.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_08182025-3157 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/durhamnc.gov/2025/#m1209931 sv:rms:centralsquare ceiling 1 0 0 NC
3254 3254 CentralSquare Chatham County NC 2022-10-17 CAD software (approve contract) 43225.0 Vote to approve a contract with CentralSquare Technologies, LLC in the amount of $43,225.00 for Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) at the 911 center and authorize the county manager to negotiate and execute the contract. https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2022/10/1289_M_Board_of_Commissioners_22-10-17_Meeting_Minutes.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/chathamnc/2022/#m599599 sv:rms:centralsquare stated 1 0 0 NC
3255 3255 CentralSquare Chatham County NC 2022-12-05 CAD-to-CAD Unify (approve sole source) 43225.0 Vote to approve competitive bid exemption and sole source for CentralSquare Technologies, LLC in the amount of $43,225.00 for the CAD-to-CAD Unify product. https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2022/12/1300_M_Board_of_Commissioners_22-12-05_Meeting_Minutes.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/chathamnc/2022/#m599592 sv:rms:centralsquare stated 1 0 0 NC
2959 2959 CentralSquare Pender County NC 2023-05-15 RMS software (approve purchase order) 9823.0 Approval of PO to Sole Source vendor of Central Square Technologies, LLC for $ 9,823.78. https://penderconc.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=277,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/penderconc/2023/#m801413 sv:rms:centralsquare stated 1 0 0 NC

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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);