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 = "WA" and vendor = "Flock Safety" 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
1873 1873 Flock Safety Spokane County WA 2023-03-28 award 205750.0 Award Bid to Flock Safety, 1170 Howell Mill Rd. NW, Suite 210, Atlanta, GA 30318 as the sole source of Flock Safety hardware and software in the amount of $205,750 for the Spokane County Sheriff's Office, Project No. P13389. https://spokanecowa.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=471,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/spokanecowa/2023/#m735188 flock stated 1 0 0 WA
1955 1955 Flock Safety Auburn WA 2023-07-17 budget amendment 150000.0 Flock safety cameras and software for Police Department5 150,000 https://auburnwa.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=2128,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/auburnwa/2023/#m812884 flock stated 1 0 0 WA
1996 1996 Flock Safety Stanwood WA 2024-11-25 approve contract 92200.0 Motion by Councilmember Robb, second by Councilmember Hicks to authorize the mayor to execute a contract with Flock Safety in the amount of $92,200.00. https://stanwoodwa.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=1268,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/stanwoodwa/2024/#m855975 flock stated 1 0 0 WA
1995 1995 Flock Safety Stanwood WA 2024-09-26 budgeted 90000.0 FLOCK Camera System – two-year = $90,000 https://stanwoodwa.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=1235,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/stanwoodwa/2024/#m855958 flock stated 1 0 0 WA
2130 2130 Flock Safety Liberty Lake WA 2026-01-06 approve 64855.0 Annual subscription for Police Department use of Flock Safety cameras and software in the amount of $64,855.00 https://www.libertylakewa.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_01062026-1175 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/libertylakewa.gov/#m1334675 flock stated 1 0 0 WA
1988 1988 Flock Safety Wapato WA 2024-06-03 received grant 26000.0 one from the Washington auto theft prevention authority for $26,000.00 to cover 8 additional flock cameras for two years. https://wapato-city.org/6.3.24%20minutes.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/rz-wapato-city.org/#m849961 flock stated 1 0 0 WA
1987 1987 Flock Safety Wapato WA 2024-06-17 approve 6000.0 Has also received approval for more flock cameras that will be added and moving around, that will cost $6,000.00, Yakima County has reimbursed us $24,000.00 for the additional flock cameras that will be going back to our budget. https://wapato-city.org/6.17.2024%20minutes.pdf https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/rz-wapato-city.org/#m849960 flock stated 1 0 0 WA

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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);