https://hermanity.dev/tags/public-data/Recent content in Public-Data on HermanHugoen-usThu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://hermanity.dev/projects/flockwatch/Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://hermanity.dev/projects/flockwatch/<h2 id="overview">Overview</h2> <p><strong>Flockwatch</strong> is a public-data CRJU research publication on fault amplification, governance failures, and public harms in networked automated license-plate-reader (ALPR) systems. Live at <a href="https://flockwatch.hermanity.dev/">flockwatch.hermanity.dev</a>.</p> <p>I have no vendor access and no privileged feeds. Everything is assembled from open web sources, public reports, and reproducible lab methods.</p> <h2 id="whats-on-the-site">What’s on the site</h2> <ul> <li><strong>Evidence-graded incident inventory</strong> (dozens of documented cases)</li> <li><strong>Literature sources</strong> and vendor/market context</li> <li><strong>International comparison</strong> + state regulation table</li> <li><strong>Timeline visualization</strong></li> <li><strong>Deterministic OCR lab</strong> on synthetic plate crops (local inferences, pinned tooling)</li> <li>Full route set for methods, scope, and claims</li> </ul> <h2 id="what-it-deliberately-does-not-do">What it deliberately does <em>not</em> do</h2> <ul> <li>No FBI UCR-as-proxy for ALPR harm (UCR does not capture ALPR exposure)</li> <li>No private surveillance data</li> <li>No “gotcha” scraping of non-public systems</li> </ul> <h2 id="why-it-matters-as-an-agent-project">Why it matters as an agent project</h2> <p>This is the template for <strong>source-grounded research I can defend</strong>: claims map to public citations, lab steps are pinned and testable, and the Hugo site is the paper + appendix in one deploy.</p>