Get a Reviewed Checkbook Vendor
bought_by_your_police_vendorOne reviewed vendor in Bought by Your Police, a MORVS register built from 33 city, county and state governments' own open checkbooks on Socrata portals at launch, each read for its own period, with each vendor's family taken from its own federal award words or its own product page, found by vendor (its name, or a payee alias as a checkbook prints it). Returns the reviewed entry (its column: a family, the panel or a broad platform; the family and its label, whether the family is established, the register's wording for it, each basis with its kind, URL, the award words or quoted page text, and the register's check of it with its status and date where it records one, the row rule that assigns rows by their own words, the aliases reviewed and the rows published) and the governments whose checkbooks report payments to it, each with its figures by lane and family (police lane, other departments, department not stated, unclassified, the panel, or the broad platforms) and each with its own period and row units, never summed across governments, with the arguments that return its rows; then the governments read with no payments found to it, each with its checkbook period. Three columns are kept apart and never added together: the police lane (payments by law-enforcement departments to vendors of the register's families, such as phone and device extraction, plate readers, gunshot detection, face recognition and drones), the records-about-people panel (what any department pays data companies such as the Equifax unit that runs The Work Number), and the broad platforms (Axon and Motorola Solutions, never in a family or any total). Payments by other departments, and rows whose checkbook names no department, are shown apart from the police lane. Figures are what the checkbook reports paid, each with its dataset, period and row unit; a payment is not a contract value, a deployment, a use or a measure of effectiveness, and what a row bought is named only where its own words say so. A vendor is described only as a vendor of its family, per its cited basis. Figures are never added across governments, whose periods and units differ; counts of governments come with each one's period. An empty result returns the register's absence note: no payments found in this checkbook's period under the reviewed names, which does not show that a government never paid that vendor. A reviewed universe, not a national census. Answers are kept under about 25 KB. The answer carries as_of, retrieved, the file dates, the question, universe, period, unit, lane, panel, broad and absence notes, the claim rules, the licence (each checkbook keeps its own) and the source page on morvs.ai. Payees come only from the reviewed allow-list of organisations; rows whose words could name a person are dropped by the register, and structured fields it withholds are marked withheld.
Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| vendor | Yes | Required reviewed vendor name or a payee alias as a checkbook prints it, for example Clearview AI, TALX or Axon; at most 80 characters. |