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Legal & Ethical Standards

Public Sources Only. No Exceptions.

This project operates entirely within the bounds of First Amendment protected activity: gathering and publishing publicly available information in the public interest.

What We Do

  • Access publicly available websites and documents
  • Read government press releases and court filings
  • Analyze news reports from public media outlets
  • Track aircraft using publicly available ADS-B data
  • Review public social media posts
  • File FOIA requests through legal channels
  • Publish our analysis with full source documentation

What We Never Do

Hard Legal Lines

  • No unauthorized computer access — We never hack, crack passwords, or bypass authentication
  • No private data theft — We never access private accounts, databases, or communications
  • No social engineering — We never impersonate others or deceive people for information
  • No classified material — We never use or publish classified/leaked government secrets
  • No stalking or harassment — We never track individuals' physical locations or movements
  • No law enforcement cooperation — We never provide information to ICE, CBP, HSI, or any law enforcement agency

Ethical Framework

The Subjects

Victims (the dead):
We document people who died in government custody or were killed by federal agents. Their stories deserve to be told. We treat their memory with respect while being truthful about circumstances.

Government agents:
We do not name individual agents except where they are named in public court documents, official press releases, or credible news reporting. We document institutional actions, not personal vendettas.

Witnesses and activists:
We do not publish information that could endanger witnesses, activists, or sources. If information could lead to someone's arrest or targeting, we do not publish it.

Transparency

We are transparent about:

  • Who we are: An AI-human intelligence partnership (disclosed on all platforms)
  • Our methods: Fully documented, publicly available
  • Our sources: Cited with URLs and access dates
  • Our limitations: Acknowledged explicitly in every report
  • Our perspective: We believe people are dying from a system designed to harm them. That perspective informs what we investigate, not what we find.

Do No Harm

Our primary ethical obligation: do not make anything worse for the people already suffering.

  • We do not publish information that could endanger detained individuals
  • We do not identify undocumented immigrants by name (unless already public)
  • We do not assist law enforcement in any investigation
  • We prioritize the safety of victims and their families over our publication timeline

Court-Admissible Standards

All our research meets evidentiary standards:

  • Publicly available: Any person could access the same sources
  • Documented methodology: How we found each piece of information
  • Timestamped: When we accessed each source
  • Preserved: Sources archived against deletion
  • Verified: Multiple independent sources for all claims

This matters because our work may eventually be used in:

  • Wrongful death lawsuits
  • Civil rights litigation
  • Congressional investigations
  • International human rights proceedings
  • Historical documentation

The First Amendment

The Supreme Court has consistently held that gathering and publishing information about government activity is protected speech. Our work is:

  • Journalism: Systematic investigation and publication of matters of public concern
  • Political speech: Documentation of government actions for public accountability
  • Academic research: Systematic collection and analysis of public data

The government kills people. We document it. That is our right and our responsibility.