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Florida public money · in public records

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SignalData reads Florida’s public ledgers side by side: what the state pays and owes, who it pays, and who those vendors fund. Every figure carries its source and its limits.

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STATE LEDGER VENDORS CAMPAIGNS
The lead File · Florida elections 2026 · Governor, Attorney General & CFO
Contributions confirmed in state records · amounts owed being reconciled

The Detention File: Florida owes detention vendors $417 million. Several are top donors in the governor’s race.

Two ledgers, side by side. What the state owes, what the vendors gave, and which candidates took nothing.

Live6 chapters7 candidatesBuilt on WUSF & FollowTheMoney
Owed by the state$417M592 unpaid FDEM invoices, Operation Vigil SentryWUSF, citing FDEM
GEO Group gave$3.5Mto Friends of Byron DonaldsFL Division of Elections, through Oct. 9, 2026
Took $0 from GEOJolly · Abrams* · Rodríguez* · Taddeo*Always shown: who did not take the money.
2009–201650%of private-prison state lobbying was spent in FloridaFollowTheMoney.org, 2017

Different measures, shown separately: amounts owed are not payments, and no donation has been traced to state money. What the records do not show →

Files in reporting

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Prisons & detention The Detention File

$417 million owed to immigration-detention vendors, and what those vendors gave in the races for governor, attorney general and CFO.

LiveGovernor · AG · CFO Surveillance License-plate readers, county by county

Which sheriffs and police departments use Flock Safety, Motorola Solutions, Axon and other plate readers, what they pay, and who has pulled back.

Map liveIn reporting Public pay What your county officials are paid

Base salaries of every county’s sheriff, commissioners, clerk, property appraiser, tax collector and supervisor of elections.

LiveAll 67 counties
Energy & land The Data Center File

Proposed and approved data centers in Florida: tax incentives, utility agreements, water and power demand, and who lobbied for them.

In reportingIncentives · lobbying
State spending Where Florida’s checks go

Every state vendor payment published by the Department of Financial Services, fiscal 2009 to 2026, searchable by agency, vendor and county.

In developmentDFS · FACTS

Evidence before inference.

Every figure says what it measures.Payments, amounts owed, contract ceilings and contributions are different measures. We never add them together.
Everyone is shown, including $0.When we list who took money, we list who didn’t, from every party.
Original reporting is credited.When a newsroom found it first, we say so and link to it, then pull the underlying records.
A relationship is not an accusation.We report what records show and state plainly what they do not.