This page is the bibliography for everything else on this site.
Every number, map, docket, tally, and timeline published across Everything Is Perfect came from somewhere. This is that somewhere — itemized, linked, and labeled with what we actually do with it. Nothing here is proprietary, nothing here was bought, and nothing here required anyone to be photographed.
The name is a joke with a point. A license plate reader learns where you were and will not tell you how it knows. We learn where the money went and will tell you exactly how we know, down to the endpoint. Same verb, opposite manners.
- If we can't cite it, we don't publish it. A claim without a source is a rumor, and rumors are what we're trying to replace.
- Cited is not the same as ingested. Entries below are labeled either Ingested (we pull and store data) or Cited (we read it and link to it, and store nothing).
- Public means public. Every source here is open to you on the same terms it is open to us. No login of ours unlocks anything you can't reach yourself.
- We archive so links can die. Government portals rotate URLs constantly. Where a source allows it, we keep our own copy and show you the original address anyway.
- Machine output is labeled as machine output. Auto-captions, classifiers, and generated summaries are never presented as the official record.
The Uncle Flocker Duet
Two voices, one appendix. Every insult ends in a footnote.
Curtain note. The obscenity was never the word. Flip the censor bar off up top and the salty version turns out to be a bird, a verb, and a vendor. What's actually indecent is a device that reads forty thousand plates a month and answers questions with a press release. Everything below is the opposite of that, in list form.
The Source Book
One entry per source. Ingested means we pull data and store it. Cited means we read it, link to it, and store nothing. Where a source publishes a license, the license is named; where a source is a government body publishing its own record, it's public domain and says so.
What We Won't Take
A source list only tells you half the story. The other half is what a system refuses to collect even though it easily could. Here it is next to the thing this page is named after.
| This project | A plate-reader network |
|---|---|
| No plates. We do not read, store, or match a license plate anywhere in this system. The detection demo at /get-the-flock-out deliberately cannot do it. | Plates are the product. Every passing vehicle is captured, timestamped, and geolocated, whether or not anyone is suspected of anything. |
| No faces. No facial recognition, no biometrics, no person-matching of any kind. | Vehicle fingerprinting by make, model, color, damage, roof racks, and bumper stickers — a description specific enough to follow one car. |
| No stored IP addresses. The visitor stats at /stats resolve a country at the moment of ingest and throw the address away. The daily hash is one-way and cannot be reversed or joined across days. | Retention by default, measured in days or months, applied to everyone in the frame. |
| No cross-source profiles of private individuals. We do not join sources to build a dossier on a private person. Public servants acting under public authority are the stated exception, and the reason the rule is worded this way: case files at /private-eye cover public officials in their public roles, and /police-academy joins the state’s own certification roster to the state’s own conduct record for the officers those same records already name. The line is not who is powerful enough to be exempt — it is whether the person is acting as a public servant we pay, on a record the government already publishes about that role. Every claim is cited, and anyone named can answer on the page. | Network sharing — thousands of standing agreements that let one agency query another's cameras, often without a warrant and without local notice. |
| No cookies, no trackers, no ad tech. No third-party scripts run on these pages. Static modules load nothing from a CDN. | Opaque access logs. Search-audit pages report totals, rarely the recipient, and almost never the reason. |
| No paywall on the sources. Every entry in the Source Book is reachable by you, at no cost, today. | A contract you didn't sign, priced per camera, approved on a consent agenda, renewed automatically. |
The standing offer
If any of the above turns out to be false about us, we will say so on this page, in the corrections log below, with the date — not in a footer, not in a policy update nobody reads. That is the entire point of publishing an appendix instead of a promise.
Corrections, disputes, and how to check us
Found something wrong?
Say which page, which claim, and what the record actually shows. Corrections that come with a citation get made the same day; ones that don't get researched anyway.
Write to requests@everythingisperfect.org.
Check a number yourself
Every entry above links to the live source, not to our copy of it. If our figure and theirs disagree, theirs wins and ours gets fixed.
Refresh cadence is listed per source. Anything marked manual is only as current as its last sweep.
Are you a source?
If you run one of the systems listed here and you want the entry worded differently, ask. We'd rather describe your data the way you'd describe it, as long as the description stays accurate.
If you want to be removed, tell us which legal basis applies and we'll evaluate it in public — on this page.
Reuse this
The list is not secret sauce. If you're building a civic transparency project in your own town, these are the doors — most of them federal or state, and open everywhere.
Start with the meetings category: an agenda portal and a video channel are enough to begin.
“Show your work.” — the entire editorial policy, in three syllables.
Uncle Flocker is the appendix to Everything Is Perfect. It is satire in its title and a bibliography in its body. The title is a play on words about a surveillance vendor and a musical number; it is not a claim about any person, and no individual is its subject.
Descriptions of third-party data sources are our own summaries. Trademarks and product names belong to their owners and appear here for identification only. Theme: Uncle Flocker Theme Pack 1.0.0 — original cut-paper art, no third-party characters or marks.