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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11 rows where state = "NM" and vendor = "Paladin Drones" 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
2451 2451 Paladin Drones Roswell NM 2025-04-03 drone-first-responder platform (approve contract) 496350.0 Consider recommending approval of a 5-year contract in the total amount of $496,350.00 with Paladin Drones. https://public.destinyhosted.com/agenda_publish.cfm?id=76793&mt=ALL&get_month=4&get_year=2025&dsp=ag&seq=254 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/aq-76793/2025/#m6748778 sv:drone:paladin recommended 1 1 0 NM
2452 2452 Paladin Drones Roswell NM 2025-04-10 drone-first-responder platform (approve contract) 496350.0 Consider recommending approval of a 5-year contract in the total amount of $496,350.00 with Paladin Drones. https://public.destinyhosted.com/agenda_publish.cfm?id=76793&mt=ALL&get_month=4&get_year=2025&dsp=ag&seq=252 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/aq-76793/2025/#m6748777 sv:drone:paladin recommended 2 1 0 NM
2788 2788 Paladin Drones Roswell NM 2025-04-10 drone-first-responder platform (approve contract) 496350.0 Consider recommending approval of a 5-year contract in the total amount of $496,350.00 with Paladin Drones. https://www.roswell-nm.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_04102025-2821 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/roswell-nm.gov/2025/#m1220569 sv:drone:paladin recommended 3 0 0 NM
2792 2792 Paladin Drones Roswell NM 2025-04-03 drone-first-responder platform (approve contract) 496350.0 Councilor Johnson made a motion to consider recommending approval of a 5-year contract in the total amount of $496,350.00 with Paladin Drones https://www.roswell-nm.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_04032025-2819 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/roswell-nm.gov/2025/#m1219736 sv:drone:paladin recommended 2 0 0 NM
2448 2448 Paladin Drones Roswell NM 2025-11-06 drone platform software (budget adjustment) 123270.0 Consider approval of a budget adjustment in the amount of $123,270 to fund the Paladin Drones software and equipment contract. https://public.destinyhosted.com/agenda_publish.cfm?id=76793&mt=ALL&get_month=11&get_year=2025&dsp=ag&seq=300 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/aq-76793/2025/#m6748831 sv:drone:paladin stated 1 1 0 NM
2449 2449 Paladin Drones Roswell NM 2025-11-13 drone platform (budget) 123270.0 Approval of a budget adjustment in the amount of $123,270 to fund the Paladin Drones software and equipment contract. https://public.destinyhosted.com/agenda_publish.cfm?id=76793&mt=ALL&get_month=11&get_year=2025&dsp=ag&seq=301 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/aq-76793/2025/#m6748829 sv:drone:paladin stated 1 1 0 NM
2450 2450 Paladin Drones Roswell NM 2025-10-14 drone platform software (budget adjustment) 123270.0 Consider approval of a budget adjustment in the amount of $123,270 to fund the Paladin Drones software and equipment contract. https://public.destinyhosted.com/agenda_publish.cfm?id=76793&mt=ALL&get_month=10&get_year=2025&dsp=ag&seq=262 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/aq-76793/2025/#m6748818 sv:drone:paladin stated 2 1 0 NM
2789 2789 Paladin Drones Roswell NM 2025-11-13 drone platform (budget) 123270.0 Approval of a budget adjustment in the amount of $123,270 to fund the Paladin Drones software and equipment contract. https://www.roswell-nm.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_11132025-2938 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/roswell-nm.gov/2025/#m1220555 sv:drone:paladin stated 2 0 0 NM
2790 2790 Paladin Drones Roswell NM 2025-10-14 drone-first-responder platform (budget) 123270.0 Consider approval of a budget adjustment in the amount of $123,270 to fund the Paladin Drones software and equipment contract. https://www.roswell-nm.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_10142025-2923 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/roswell-nm.gov/2025/#m1219935 sv:drone:paladin stated 3 0 0 NM
2791 2791 Paladin Drones Roswell NM 2025-11-18 drone-first-responder platform (budget adjustment) 123270.0 Consider approval of a budget adjustment in the amount of $123,270 to fund Paladin Drones software and equipment contract. https://www.roswell-nm.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_11182025-2943 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/roswell-nm.gov/2025/#m1219934 sv:drone:paladin stated 1 0 0 NM
2793 2793 Paladin Drones Roswell NM 2025-11-06 drone software and equipment (budget adjustment) 123270.0 Consider approval of a budget adjustment in the amount of $123,270 to fund the Paladin Drones software and equipment contract. https://www.roswell-nm.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_11062025-2937 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/roswell-nm.gov/2025/#m1219728 sv:drone:paladin stated 4 0 0 NM

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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);