The Legal Aid Society (LAS) published hundreds of NYPD documents detailing millions of dollars in police purchases of surveillance and facial recognition technology the agency made through the opaque “special expense budget.”

LAS published the documents publicly online on Thursday, months after the courts ruled the NYPD must provide the thousands of pages of records the nonprofit had requested through the Freedom of Information Law.

The first batch of records, which amounts to 470 pages of NYPD contracts with defense contractors and information surveillance companies, was released to the LAS in August. Purchases by the NYPD include devices and maintenance for cellphone tracking, facial recognition and iris scanning technology.

As part of the agreement, the NYPD will continue to release

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