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  • NOPD Drone Flights Are Now Tweeted as They Are Logged

    Every NOPD drone flight now gets posted to X within minutes of NOPD logging it. The posts come from DroneWatch, a small open-source tool I released today, and they appear on @MWollenweber. NOPD publishes its Skydio drone flight records as a public ArcGIS layer. Each record carries the flight’s stated purpose, a free-text description, takeoff…

  • The Perdido Institute Is Open

    The Perdido Institute opened today, November 2, 2026, as a New Orleans nonprofit that protects residents from unlawful surveillance and holds city government to its own laws. Our first tool is RETINA, a public map of 1,117 surveillance cameras and automated license plate readers in New Orleans. We built it from two city datasets, OpenStreetMap,…

  • Hello World!

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