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 = "TX" and vendor = "Utility Associates" 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
2681 2681 Utility Associates Pasadena TX 2025-04-01 BodyWorn camera system (purchase) 500842.0 Authorizing and approving the purchase by the City of Pasadena, Texas of BodyWorn Camera System through BuyBoard Co-operative Contract #743-24 from Utility Associates tnc.; in the amount of $500,842.20 and a like payment annually for four years thereafter for a total amount of $2,504,211.00. https://www.pasadenatx.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_04012025-574 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/pasadenatx.gov/2025/#m1357156 sv:bodycam:utility_assoc stated 1 0 0 TX
2682 2682 Utility Associates Pasadena TX 2025-04-15 BodyWorn Camera System (purchase) 500842.0 Authorizing and approving the purchase by the City of Pasadena, Texas of BodyWorn Camera System through BuyBoard Co -operative Contract #743-24 from Utility Associates Inc.; in the amount of $500,842.20 and a like payment annually for four years thereafter for a total amount of $2,504,211.00. https://www.pasadenatx.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_04152025-577 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/pasadenatx.gov/2025/#m1357154 sv:bodycam:utility_assoc stated 1 0 0 TX
2683 2683 Utility Associates Pasadena TX 2025-04-15 BodyWorn Camera System (purchase) 500842.0 Authorizing and approving the purchase by the City of Pasadena, Texas of BodyWorn Camera System through BuyBoard Co -operative Contract #743-24 from Utility Associates Inc.; in the amount of $500,842.20 and a like payment annually for four years thereafter for a total amount of $2,504,211.00. https://www.pasadenatx.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_04152025-578 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/pasadenatx.gov/2025/#m1357153 sv:bodycam:utility_assoc stated 2 0 0 TX
2591 2591 Utility Associates Cleburne TX 2024-05-28 camera outfitting (purchase) 189553.0 AND CAMERA OUTFITTING OF THE VEHICLES BY UTILITY ASSOCIATES, INC IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $189,553. https://www.cleburne.net/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_05282024-1947 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/cleburne.net/#m1451901 sv:bodycam:utility_assoc ceiling 1 0 0 TX
3531 3531 Utility Associates La Porte TX 2024-09-23 body cameras (authorize service agreement) 178000.0 Authorize the City Manager to execute a Service Agreement between the City of La Porte, Texas, and BodyWorn by Utility for the body worn cameras and communication equipment package, under BuyBoard Contract #568-18, in the amount of $53,000.00 in year one (1) and $31,150.00 in years two (2), three (3), four (4) and five (5) with a total cost of $178,000.00 over a five- (5-) year period. https://pub-laporte.escribemeetings.com/Meeting.aspx?Id=f7331df6-5a74-4c3a-994a-edee71109019&Agenda=Agenda&lang=English https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/pub-laporte/2024/#m370196 sv:bodycam:utility_assoc 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);