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.

Data license: CC BY 4.0 · Data source: MyTown

2 rows where vendor = "Flock Safety group" 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
2072 2072 Flock Safety group St. Joseph MO 2025-02-03 authorized amendment to Police Department budget and acceptance of grant to purchase and install 33683.0 An Ordinance (Bill #1133-22) authorizing an amendment to the Police Department budget in the General Fund and acceptance of the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant in the amount of $33,683.00 to be used to purchase and install ten automated License Plate Reader Systems and software from Flock Safety group for the Police Department and one for the Buchanan County Sheriff’s Office, having been read the first time on January 21, 2025, was read the second time and passed. https://www.stjosephmo.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_02032025-3040 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/stjosephmo.gov/2025/#m1214876 flock stated 1 0 0 MO
2073 2073 Flock Safety group St. Joseph MO 2025-01-21 introduced and read the first time 33683.0 An Ordinance (Bill #1133-22) authorizing an amendment to the Police Department budget in the General Fund and acceptance of the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant in the amount of $33,683.00 to be used to purchase and install ten automated License Plate Reader Systems and software from Flock Safety group for the Police Department and one for the Buchanan County Sheriff’s Office, was introduced and read the first time. https://www.stjosephmo.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/_01212025-3041 https://mytown.theboringparts.com/city/stjosephmo.gov/2025/#m1214877 flock stated 1 0 0 MO

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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);