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 = "WV" 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
426 426 Axon Vienna WV 2025-12-11 body cameras 349000.0 Axon Enterprise, Inc $349,000.00 *To be paid over 5 years https://www.vienna-wv.com/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_12112025-354 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/vienna-wv.com/2025/#m1555116 axon stated 1 0 0 WV
778 778 Axon Vienna WV 2023-08-10 body cameras 95545.8 Authorizing The Mayor To Execute The Axon Master Services And Purchasing Agreement Along With The Price Quote For The Vienna Police Department ($95,545.80) https://www.vienna-wv.com/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_08102023-211 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/vienna-wv.com/2023/#m1555339 axon stated 1 0 0 WV
4238 4238 TriTech Software Charleston WV 2024-07-15 RMS software (renew) 80370.0 That the Mayor or City Manager is hereby authorized to purchase an annual renewal of the Charleston Police Department’s record management software from Tritech Software Systems for $80,370.73. https://charlestonwv.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=6925,plainText=false) https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/charlestonwv/#m489988 sv:rms:tritech stated 1 0 0 WV
884 884 Axon Vienna WV 2025-12-11 body cameras 66473.28 RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE AXON BODY CAMERA BID AND AUTHORIZING YEAR ONE FUNDING FROM OPIOID SETTLEMENT FUNDS IN THE AMOUNT OF $66,473.28 https://www.vienna-wv.com/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_12112025-354 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/vienna-wv.com/2025/#m1555116 axon stated 1 0 0 WV
1206 1206 Axon Weirton WV 2025-06-09 Tasers 17669.0 A Resolution to Authorize the City Manager to Enter into a Contract to Purchase Ten (10) Axon Tasers X26P9, Ten (10) Taser Battery Packs, and Fifty (50) Taser Cartridges, to be Used for the City of Weirton Police Department ($17,669.00) https://www.cityofweirton.com/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_06092025-499 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/cityofweirton.com/2025/#m1558558 axon stated 1 0 0 WV
2519 2519 DJI Weirton WV 2023-07-10 Mavic 3T Combo Drone (purchase) 7740.0 A Resolution to Authorize the City Manager to Enter into a Contract to Purchase One (1) DJI Mavic 3T Combo Drone to be Used for the City of Weirton Police Department ($7,740.00). https://www.cityofweirton.com/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_07102023-423 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/cityofweirton.com/2023/#m1558707 sv:drone:dji stated 1 0 0 WV

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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);