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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3 rows where state = "WI" and vendor = "Motorola Solutions" 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
2992 2992 Motorola Solutions Antigo WI 2025-11-12 squad video systems (purchase) 47850.0 the cost of Motorola Solutions upgrade would be: $47,850.00 https://antigowi.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=3999,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/antigowi/2025/#m781203 sv:motorola:motorola stated 1 0 0 WI
4030 4030 Motorola Solutions Buffalo County WI 2024-08-15 Camera Install (purchase) 31980.0 31,980.00Camera Install08/06/20241411041285MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS INC 190.00.52627.999.0000 https://www.buffalocountywi.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_08152024-2882 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/buffalocountywi.gov/2024/#m1318442 sv:motorola:motorola stated 1 0 0 WI
4031 4031 Motorola Solutions Buffalo County WI 2025-01-16 body cameras (purchase) 13500.0 13,500.00Body cam/video12/31/2024INV0003275MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS INC 100.18.52110.347.0000 https://www.buffalocountywi.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_01162025-2963 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/buffalocountywi.gov/2025/#m1318108 sv:motorola:motorola stated 1 0 0 WI

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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);