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Civic Data Hub

Self-hosted access to authoritative US legal, civic, religious, and historical data β€” every card below has working search/input. Lookups that need a state portal return the canonical URL; data we have locally is searchable inline.

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SCOTUS cases
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US Code titles
27
Const. amendments
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Bible translations
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Historical events
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News articles
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Jail roster rows

πŸ“Š County scoreboard β€” overdose Β· arrests Β· IDOC releases Β· gauges

Live snapshot for any Indiana county. Pulls from /api/world/sitrep + /api/proxy/indot/events + IDOH overdose dataset. Pick a county to refresh.

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Active NWS alerts
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INDOT/road events
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M2.5+ quakes 7d (state)
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IDOH OD rate /100k
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INDOT cameras here
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Population (2024 est.)

βš–οΈ Indiana court activity (CourtListener)

Latest opinions, dockets, and 7th-Circuit oral arguments scraped from CourtListener / Free Law Project. Indiana Sup. Ct., Ct. of Appeals, Tax Court, IN N./S. Federal Districts + bankruptcy + 7th Cir.

Latest opinions

Latest dockets

7th Cir. oral arguments

/api/public/civic/ibe-hub

🧠 AI county summary β€” plain-English plain-numbers

Pick a county above + click. Gemma-3 on Gary's home server reads the scoreboard data + recent IBE investigations and writes a kid-readable summary.

πŸ“© Submit a tip β€” straight to Gary

Tips POST directly to the TCG Tip Intake grouped by site. Gary gets a push notification on every submission.

πŸ” IBE document explorer

Search across the 12+ IBE investigations + linked IDOC PDFs. Type a keyword, see matching articles + the section it was found in.

IBE Investigative Toolkit

Surveillance-transparency, ALPR coverage, vendor payments, and rolling public-safety signals β€” pulled live from the TCG research server. Audit-ready, source-cited.

EFF Atlas of Surveillance

Mirror of EFF + Reynolds Journalism Institute Atlas. Filter US deployments by state & tech (ALPR, drone, body-cam, ring, predictive-policing, gunshot-detection).

GET /api/atlas/stats · /api/atlas/deployments

Flock ALPR coverage

Catalog of Flock Safety license-plate-reader agency deployments. Filter by state to see which Indiana agencies are using ALPR cameras.

GET /api/flock/agencies · /api/flock/stats

FOIA & public records search

Search across MuckRock, FOIA.gov, Indiana APRA, and DocumentCloud. Type a keyword to get direct search links into each portal. Indiana vendor-payment dataset (SBOA) not yet ingested server-side β€” file requests directly via APRA.

GET /api/foia/search · Indiana APRA portal

Agency dossier

Deep-dive on a single law-enforcement / public agency: cameras owned, vendor payments received, news mentions. Pick from the lightweight catalog.

GET /api/agencies/ · /api/agencies/{slug}/profile

ALPR in the news

Rolling list of news + Reddit mentions of license-plate-reader and Flock-related stories. Updated as the server pulls feeds.

GET /api/signals/mentions · /api/signals/stats

Live public-safety signals

Unified feed: NWS alerts, RSS news, Bluesky posts, FARS crash records β€” filtered by severity. Useful when something's developing.

GET /api/public-signals/list · /api/public-signals/stats

Consumer-protection signal registry

Live HEAD-verified registry powering IBE: federal enforcement (FTC, CFPB, SEC, OCC, Federal Reserve, HHS-OIG), federal recalls (FDA, EPA), Indiana AG / IDOI / DFI / Securities, court records (Indiana Supreme, federal districts, bankruptcy), Indianapolis-area journalism, OFAC sanctions, and local code enforcement. Categories listed below; expand to see source URLs.

GET /api/world/source-registry/ibe · ?expand=1

Live Indiana watch

Real-time Jackson County + Indiana data: weather, threat composite, NWS alerts, USGS quakes, IDOH overdose latest. Updates every 90s.

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Seymour temp
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Threat composite
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Active NWS alerts
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Flood gauges
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M2.5+ quakes 7d
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IDOH OD/100k latest

Religious & historical

Bible passage

9 translations via bible-api proxy. Cached 24h.

GET /api/bible/{translation}/{ref}

Historical events

Curated index; seeded w/ 6 high-signal entries. Filter by kind or text.

GET /api/history/?kind=&q=

Indiana civic search

Pre-fills the official portal URL with your inputs. We don't scrape state portals β€” click through to the live site.

mycase.in.gov

Indiana Judicial Branch case-search.

GET /api/civic/indiana/mycase

IDOC offender lookup

Indiana Department of Correction.

GET /api/civic/indiana/idoc-offender

County clerk directory

92 Indiana counties.

GET /api/civic/indiana/county-clerk?county=...

Indiana jail / inmate search

VINELink is the national-standard free inmate lookup. Most Indiana jails participate. Type a name + county to get the pre-filled search URL.

GET /api/jails/search?county=&name=

IDOH overdose data

Statewide annual overdose deaths + per-county breakdown.

GET /api/idoh/overdose/historical

Kentucky civic search

Kentucky AOC FastCheck

Civil-records portal. Login + fee may be required.

GET /api/civic/kentucky/aoc-fastcheck

KOOL offender lookup

Kentucky Online Offender Lookup.

GET /api/civic/kentucky/kool-offender

Federal docket + emergency

SCOTUS public docket

Federal SCOTUS docket-search builder.

GET /api/civic/scotus/case?q=

PulsePoint embed

Build embed iframe for a PulsePoint-enabled fire/EMS agency.

GET /api/emergency/pulsepoint?agency_code=

Scanner radio (Broadcastify)

State + county scanner directory.

GET /api/emergency/scanner-radio

AI civic helpers

Local AI tools that help with civic research. All run on Gary's home server (gemma3:1b for chat/summary, moondream for vision). No data leaves the home network.

Ask a civic question

Indiana / Kentucky / federal procedural questions. Filing deadlines, common forms, which agency does what.

POST /api/public/chat

Summarize a long document

Paste a court order, statute excerpt, contract, or policy memo. Get a tight bullet summary with risks + next steps.

POST /api/public/summarize

Inspect an image / scan

Upload a photo of a notice, dashcam, sketchy product, or scan. Vision model describes what it sees and flags suspicious activity.

POST /api/public/vision (multipart)