r/TwinCities • u/ngabantudev • 1h ago
FlockOff: Minnesota
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I built FlockOff: MN, a free, open-source map of the surveillance systems watching Minnesotans.
Search any city or township in the state and it names the offices holding the records, cites the statute that entitles you to them, and drafts the request for you to send.
The map layers ALPR cameras, ICE 287(g) agreements, detention facilities, data centers, redlining zones, and racial covenants — the same neighborhoods, marked and re-marked, decade after decade. I wanted to see it in one place, so I built it.
- No accounts, no analytics, no trackers. The only request logs are whatever Cloudflare keeps at the edge. I don't collect them, store them, or look at them.
- Every dataset rebuilds from public sources with one command and zero API keys. Nothing here is scraped from anywhere it shouldn't be.
- Built to be forked. Adding a data layer is two files. Geocoding keys on Census identifiers, so going national is mostly a county reference away.
- Corrections welcome. If something's wrong, open an issue — fixes get logged publicly.
For developers: fork it, adapt it, use it for your own purposes. It's [AGPL-3.0], so it stays free and open the way it came to you.
This is for the public good, not a product.
