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 = "OK" and vendor = "Flock Group, Inc." 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
1826 1826 Flock Group, Inc. Oklahoma City OK 2024-07-16 renew 270000.0 Renewal No. 1 of Master Services Agreement, Flock Group, Inc. (C241032), Automated License Plate Reader software and hardware, $270,000, retroactive to July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2025. https://okc.primegov.com/Public/CompiledDocument/65841 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/okc/2024/#m640759 flock stated 1 1 0 OK
1827 1827 Flock Group, Inc. Oklahoma City OK 2025-07-01 renewal 270000.0 Renewal No. 2 of Master Services Agreement with Flock Group, Inc. (C241032), Automated License Plate Reader software and hardware, $270,000, July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026. https://okc.primegov.com/Public/CompiledDocument/72510 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/okc/2025/#m641379 flock stated 1 1 0 OK
2376 2376 Flock Group, Inc. Oklahoma City OK 2026-08-04 renew 270000.0 Renewal No. 3 of Master Services Agreement with Flock Group, Inc. (C241032), Automated License Plate Reader software and hardware, $270,000, retroactive to July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2027. https://okc.primegov.com/Public/CompiledDocument/79599 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/okc/#m19607280 flock stated 1 1 0 OK
1864 1864 Flock Group, Inc. Tulsa County OK 2023-12-04 strike agreement 62500.0 The Flock Group, Inc., for annual Flock Safety Platform in the amount of $62,500 https://tulsacook.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=6999,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/tulsacook/2023/#m712107 flock stated 1 0 0 OK
1865 1865 Flock Group, Inc. Tulsa County OK 2024-02-12 approve and authorize execution 44565.0 Flock Group, Inc., for the lease of license plate recognition cameras with vehicle fingerplate + machine learning software and real-alerts for unlimited users, through 6/30/2024; cost of $44,565.04 https://tulsacook.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=7218,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/tulsacook/#m712137 flock stated 1 0 0 OK

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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);