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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7 rows where state = "OK" and vendor = "Verkada" 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
3461 3461 Verkada Chickasha OK 2023-12-18 security cameras and equipment (purchase) 425000.0 Accept and ratify authorization to purchase security cameras and equipment for all municipal buildings through Verkada on State Contract not to exceed $425,000.00. https://chickashaok.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=2883,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/chickashaok/2023/#m465118 sv:camera:verkada ceiling 1 0 0 OK
3462 3462 Verkada Chickasha OK 2023-12-18 security cameras and equipment (purchase) 425000.0 Accept and ratify action to authorize the purchase of security cameras and equipment for all municipal buildings through Verkada on State Contract not to exceed $425,000.00 https://chickashaok.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=2881,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/chickashaok/2023/#m465117 sv:camera:verkada ceiling 2 0 0 OK
3463 3463 Verkada Chickasha OK 2023-12-18 security cameras and equipment (authorize purchase) 425000.0 authorize the purchase of security cameras and equipment for all municipal buildings through Verkada on State Contract not to exceed $425,000.00. https://chickashaok.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=2879,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/chickashaok/2023/#m465116 sv:camera:verkada ceiling 2 0 0 OK
3447 3447 Verkada Sallisaw OK 2022-03-01 security camera system (purchase) 46000.0 for the Purchase of Verkada Security Camera System, in an Amount Not to Exceed $46,000.00 https://sallisawok.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=746,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/sallisawok/2022/#m494122 sv:camera:verkada ceiling 1 0 0 OK
3776 3776 Verkada Sallisaw OK 2026-07-13 cloud surveillance cameras (renew) 24814.0 Purchase Order No. 109329, Issued to VIP Technology Solutions Group of Broken Arrow, in the amount of $24,814.50 for the Verkada Network Camera Access and Licensing renewal https://sallisawok.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=2386,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/sallisawok/#m222726 sv:camera:verkada stated 1 0 0 OK
3445 3445 Verkada Sallisaw OK 2025-11-10 Verkada Access Control Panel (purchase) 23332.0 issued to VIP Technology Solutions Group of Coweta, Oklahoma, in the amount of $23,332.07 for an upgraded Verkada Access Control Panel for the security system at City Hall https://sallisawok.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=2139,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/sallisawok/2025/#m494663 sv:camera:verkada stated 1 0 0 OK
2522 2522 Verkada Inola OK 2024-10-15 camera license (renew) 3213.0 Discussion, consideration, and possible action to renew the Verkada one year camera license in the amount of $3,213.00. https://www.inolaok.com/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_10152024-75 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/inolaok.com/2024/#m1555799 sv:camera:verkada 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);