🏛️ CapWatch Public

OSINT tracker for US Capitol surveillance systems and contractor spending

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What Is This

CapWatch tracks surveillance technology procurement at the US Capitol — cameras, biometrics, access control systems, and the contractors who supply them.

Built on public contract data from USASpending.gov and FOIA disclosures. Everything here is public record.

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Data Sources

• USASpending.gov — Federal contract awards
• QuiverQuant — Congressional contract tracking
• FOIA disclosures — MuckRock database
• GAO reports — Government accountability findings

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Architecture

Cloudflare Worker (capwatch-public)
     │
     ├── D1 (contract records, vendor database)
     ├── KV (news cache, rate limiting)
     └── REST API (/api/contracts, /api/vendors, /api/news)

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Self-Hosting

git clone https://github.com/indicaindependent/capwatch-public
cd capwatch-public
cp wrangler.toml.example wrangler.toml

wrangler d1 create capwatch-db
wrangler secret put QUIVERQUANT_API_KEY
wrangler secret put NEWS_API_KEY
wrangler deploy

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License

AGPL-3.0 — Modifications must be open-sourced.

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_{Public record data only | Built by VPDLNY}