NORTH CAROLINAAPX-M001
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Public Accountability Network · Apex, NC

Automated license plate recognition, pointed the other way. Every camera, every hotlist, every travel history the town approved for its residents. Now aimed at the officials who approved it.

All detection data is fabricated. A civic demonstration by DeFlock Apex. deflockapex.org
Demonstration · Parody · All plate reads and locations are fabricated · Built by DeFlock Apex
Demonstration · Fabricated Data

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Public Accountability Network
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Cameras Online
18
of 18 deployed
Reads Today
3,412
across the network
Tracked Subjects
12
officials · staff · APD
Hotlist Hits (24h)
27
subjects seen
Retention
30 days
rolling, all reads

Live Detection Map · Apex, NC

Streaming
Fixed camera
Hotlist hit
Route replay

Live Read Feed

auto-updating
Point the lens back

Every capability on this screen already exists in the license plate reader network operating in Apex today. The live feed, the hotlist alerts, the 30 day retention, the natural language search over where a car has been. This demonstration aims all of it at the people who approved the program. Nothing here was invented except who is being watched.

You just watched a surveillance system profile people in seconds. The real one is running in Apex right now.

No public vote approved it. No written ordinance governs it. The protections are settings a chief can change, not law a community agreed to. That is the gap we are asking the town to close.

Roster · Approved Officials and APD

12 subjects
How a hotlist works

A hotlist is a set of plates the system flags on sight. Anyone can be added to one, and lists are shared across other agencies, often without the subject knowing. In the real network the list is residents. Here it is the officials who voted the cameras in, the staff who run them, and the department that searches them.

Pattern of Life · Behavioral Insights

Movement Heatmap · 7 days × 24 hours

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▲ Predicted Next Location

Frequent Locations

⚠ Pattern Anomaly Detected

Insights are the quiet part

Plate reads become a pattern of life once the system connects them. Where someone sleeps, when they leave, who they visit, what changed this week, where they will be next. An algorithm calling a change in your routine an anomaly is not safety. It is profiling. The network in Apex can build this profile on any resident right now.

Association Network · Co-Location Analysis

who travels with whom

Relationship Graph

edge weight = shared sightings

Strongest Associations

Guilt by pattern

Once every plate is logged, the system infers relationships no one reported. Two cars at the same lot at the same time becomes an association. A meeting becomes a data point. This is how a camera network turns ordinary movement into a map of who knows whom, with no crime and no warrant anywhere in the process.

External Agencies With Access
141
reconstructed from audit logs
Outbound Searches Run
12,584
by or through this network
Cameras Reachable
100,075
~6,900 networks · 15+ states
This tab is not a parody

The demonstration data on every other tab is fabricated. The figures above reflect DeFlock Apex's own records reconstructed from public audit logs. A camera network approved without a public vote or a written ordinance is sharing Apex plate data far beyond Apex. Confirm the current numbers against the source dataset before quoting them.

Agencies Sharing This Network's Data

sample · not exhaustive