We're building a secure, public archive of citizen-collected evidence—videos, photos, documents, and audio—documenting federal law enforcement violence and authoritarian overreach. We're using AI to organize fragmented documentation into a searchable collection for investigations, reporting, accountability, and justice. And we need you.
Evidence of government overreach is everywhere—and nowhere safe.
Critical evidence lives on personal phones, social media, and local hard drives. No centralized preservation exists.
Related evidence across incidents, locations, and dates can't be cross-referenced or analyzed at scale.
Agents operate masked and unidentified. Without systematic documentation, patterns of abuse stay invisible.
Phones break. Accounts get deleted. Platforms change policies. Memories fade. The clock is running.
A four-stage pipeline from raw evidence to public accountability.
Privacy-first uploads that protect sources and preserve evidentiary integrity.
Automatic transcription, tagging, classification, and cross-referencing.
Editorial oversight ensures accuracy and applies publication standards.
Available to journalists, attorneys, researchers, and affected communities.
The WATCHMEN Archive is a project of Open Shadows, a center for research, intelligence, and organizing against extremism and authoritarian rule. Built by and for the communities at greatest risk.
Individuals and foundations who believe in accountability infrastructure.
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