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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4 rows where state = "TX" and vendor = "BRINC 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
3530 3530 BRINC Drones La Porte TX 2026-03-09 DFR program (approve contract) 179997.0 Authorize the City Manager to execute a contract between the City of La Porte, Texas, and Motorola Solutions - BRINC, with no charge for year 1, $59,999.00 annually for years 2-4, for a total expenditure of $179,997.00 for implementation of a 4-year Drones as First Responder program at the La Porte Police Department under DIR-CPO-5433. https://pub-laporte.escribemeetings.com/Meeting.aspx?Id=c9e5cd23-a2a6-4c54-9b6f-9484af73fc86&Agenda=Agenda&lang=English https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/pub-laporte/#m370385 sv:drone:brinc stated 1 0 0 TX
3879 3879 BRINC Drones Webster TX 2026-05-05 DFR services (execute a contract) 79999.0 to execute a contract with Motorola Solutions and Brinc Manufacturing for Drone as a First Responder (DFR) services in the amount of $79,999.00 annually or $399,995.00 for a 5-year paid contract term. https://www.cityofwebster.com/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_05052026-579 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/cityofwebster.com/#m17524 sv:drone:brinc stated 1 0 0 TX
3166 3166 BRINC Drones Houston TX 2024-10-22 Indoor Capable Drone Bundles (purchase) 60000.0 BRINC DRONES, INC for Purchase of Indoor Capable Drone Bundles through the BuyBoard Cooperative for the Mayor's Office of Public Safety and Homeland Security on behalf of the Houston Police Department - $60,000.00 - Grant Fund - was presented, moved by Council Member Castex-Tatum and seconded by Council Member Peck, all voting aye, nays none. https://houstontx.primegov.com/Public/CompiledDocument/534 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/houstontx/2024/#m681987 sv:drone:brinc stated 1 0 0 TX
2496 2496 BRINC Drones Lamar County TX 2024-06-19 BRINC Ball Safeguard (approve contract) 12495.0 Motion by Lamar County Commissioners’ Court to approve the “Master Services and Purchasing Agreement” between the County of Lamar and BRINC Drones, Inc. for five (5) years, at a total contract value of $12,495.00 for (1) BRINC Ball Safeguard. https://www.lamarcountytx.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_06192024-24 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/lamarcountytx.gov/2024/#m1582833 sv:drone:brinc stated 1 0 0 TX

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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);