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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2 rows where state = "TX" and vendor = "Idemia" 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
3660 3660 Idemia Harris County TX 2024-12-19 automated fingerprint identification system (amend) 45127.0 Request that the County Judge execute an amendment to an agreement and a renewal option with IDEMIA Identity & Security USA LLC in the additional amount of $ 45,127 for the modified pricing structure of Exhibit A for automated fingerprint identification system for Harris County for the extended period of January 8, 2025 - January 7, 2026 (210072), Justification for 0% MWDBE Participation Goal: 0% - Non-Divisible. https://harriscountytx.legistar1.com/harriscountytx/meetings/2024/12/1183_A_Commissioners_Court_24-12-19_Agenda.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/harriscountytx/2024/#m290742 sv:face:idemia stated 1 0 0 TX
2513 2513 Idemia Ector County TX 2025-12-02 LiveScan System (purchase) 35099.0 To consider, discuss, and take any necessary action to approve the purchase of the IDEMIA LiveScan System, which includes the unit price of $35,099.00 with an annual maintenance fee of $5,749.00, and authorize the County Judge, and any other necessary party, to sign all documents associated with this agenda item; https://www.ectorcountytx.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_12022025-53 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/ectorcountytx.gov/#m1568240 sv:face:idemia 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);