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 = "NE" and vendor = "Motorola Solutions" 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
2822 2822 Motorola Solutions Bennet NE 2025-10-21 radio communications equipment and body worn cameras (purchase) 1200000.0 Notice to proceed with the purchase of radio communications equipment and body worn cameras from Motorola Solutions for a total price of $1,200,000. https://www.lancaster.ne.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_10212025-2459 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/lancaster.ne.gov/2025/#m1195840 sv:motorola:motorola stated 1 1 0 NE
2823 2823 Motorola Solutions Bennet NE 2025-11-25 body cameras, ALPR, in-car cameras (award purchase order) 93432.0 Recommendation from the Purchasing Agent on behalf of the Sheriff’s Office to award and execute a purchase order to Motorola Solutions for body-worn cameras, in-car cameras for the seven Ford Police Interceptors, and license plate readers in the total amount of $93,432.18. https://www.lancaster.ne.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_11252025-2475 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/lancaster.ne.gov/2025/#m1195836 sv:motorola:motorola recommended 1 1 0 NE
2490 2490 Motorola Solutions Bellevue NE 2024-10-15 body cams (purchase) 87398.0 Approval to purchase Motorola In-Car Video Recording System and Body Cams, in an amount not to exceed $87,398.95. https://www.bellevue.net/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10152024-53 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/bellevue.net/2024/#m1594904 sv:motorola:motorola ceiling 1 0 0 NE
2491 2491 Motorola Solutions Bellevue NE 2025-11-04 body cameras (approve purchase) 76403.0 Approve the purchase of Cruiser cameras and body cameras from Motorola Solutions for use in the new cruisers and to retrofit older cruisers with the new body cameras, in a price not to exceed $76,403.29. https://www.bellevue.net/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_11042025-97 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/bellevue.net/#m1594869 sv:motorola:motorola ceiling 1 0 0 NE
2529 2529 Motorola Solutions Papillion NE 2026-02-17 ALPR services (approve contract) 23091.0 RES. R26-0045 – A resolution to approve a five-year License Plate Reader (LPR) Services Agreement with Motorola Solutions in the total amount of $23,091.52 https://www.papillion.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_02172026-598 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/papillion.org/#m1546519 sv:motorola:motorola stated 1 0 0 NE

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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);