Examples from the record

A short tour of representative pages on watchwatch.org, chosen to show the kinds of records this site holds and how each is sourced. Every page below is part of the live record.

Last updated 2026-08-05.

• Records-request sourcing Orange County, California

  A county record where individual entries are on the record through public records requests and press reporting. Each entry names its sources and links to the underlying material, including requests received on agencies' own public records request logs.

• Depth of a county record Cook County, Illinois

  A large county record spanning dozens of agencies and most technology categories, with entries sourced to primary documents such as agency policy filings and state training-board records.

• Plain-language explainers The technologies, in plain language

  Each technology category in the record, described in plain language: what it is, how it works, and how widely it appears on the public record.

• International coverage United Kingdom observatory

  Deployment records by police force area, shaded on a force-area map and sourced to each force's published records and government publications.

• Open data Data downloads

  The record as bulk downloads: one row per agency and technology pair, with citations, alongside a browse-by-state table.

• The news wire Surveillance technology, as reported

  Press coverage tagged by technology, jurisdiction, and event type, with stories carried by multiple outlets clustered into one entry.