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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6 rows where state = "TX" and vendor = "Flock" 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
1644 1644 Flock League City TX 2023-07-31 budget 85900.0 Flock Cameras ($85,900) https://legistar1.granicus.com/LeagueCity/meetings/2023/7/2078_M_City_Council_23-07-31_Meeting_Minutes.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/leaguecity/2023/#m300973 flock stated 1 0 0 TX
1814 1814 Flock Calhoun County TX 2026-04-15 acknowledge and accept application for grant 48500.0 Consider and take necessary action to acknowledge and accept the Calhoun County Sheriff’s Office application for the Flock Grant 2026, administered through the Vehicle Crime Prevention Authority (VCAP). The grant funds 80% of the annual cost for specialized equipment used to locate, track, and reduce auto theft, with a total annual cost of $48,500.00 and a County match of $9,700.00. https://calhouncotx.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=7726,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/calhouncotx/#m610306 flock stated 1 0 0 TX
1902 1902 Flock Montgomery County TX 2024-06-17 budgeted 40000.0 Additional Flock Cameras -$ 40,000.00$ 40,000.00$ https://montgomerytx.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=1956,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/montgomerytx/2024/#m757691 flock stated 1 0 0 TX
1903 1903 Flock Montgomery County TX 2024-07-01 budget 40000.0 Additional Flock Cameras - $ - $ 40,000.00$ https://montgomerytx.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=1373,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/montgomerytx/2024/#m757695 flock stated 1 0 0 TX
1967 1967 Flock Polk County TX 2025-02-25 accept donation 10000.0 ACCEPT DONATION TO THE POLK COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE IN THE AMOUNT OF $10,000 TO BE USED FOR FLOCK CAMERA MAINTENANCE ($6,150) AND TRAINING EXPENSES ($3,850). https://polkcotx.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=1893,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/polkcotx/2025/#m830250 flock stated 1 1 0 TX
1496 1496 Flock Argyle TX 2026-05-26 approve purchase 4250.0 We are requesting the allocation of $4,250 of these funds for the purchase of: 1. Installation of one additional Flock License Plate Reader (LPR) camera on southbound Hwy 377 at Wildflower Place. https://www.argyletx.com/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_05262026-1293 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/argyletx.com/#m11291 flock 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);