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Layers

  • Historical Policies 0/2 layers switched on

    The oldest layer, and the one underneath the others: public and private rules that drew the lines the rest of this map sits on.

    • 1930s federal mortgage-risk grades that steered lending away from Black and immigrant neighbourhoods.

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      HOLC grade
      City
      Groups named in the survey
    • Deed clauses that barred non-white families from buying or living on a property, counted by block.

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      City
  • Infrastructure 0/2 layers switched on

    What has to be built and fed before anything can record: the buildings, power and land the rest of it runs on.

    • Large computing facilities, their operators and power sources — plus where communities are organising against them.

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      Operator
      Status
    • How many vehicles cross each stretch of Minnesota road on an average day, counted by the agency that owns the roads.

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      Road class
      Who owns the road
  • Surveillance Apparatus 0/2 layers switched on

    What is recording, and how far one ordinary journey is recorded for.

    • Automated licence plate readers mapped by volunteers — cameras that photograph and log passing vehicles.

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      Who runs it
      • Not recorded
      • Police department
      • County sheriff
      • State agency
      • Multi-agency task force
      • Neighbourhood association
      • School or campus
      • Vendor-operated (Flock)
      • Other or unclassified

      Colours apply once cameras are drawn one by one, from zoom 14.

      Camera density sparse → dense

      Brighter patches are nodes: two or more cameras standing together.

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      Who runs it
      Operator
      Manufacturer
      Camera type
    • The roads between the plate readers — the streets joining neighbouring cameras, and the long roads joining one watched cluster to the next.

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  • Immigration Enforcement 0/2 layers switched on

    What the recording is for: the agencies that have signed up to act, and the places people are held.

    • Local police and sheriffs who have signed agreements to help ICE with immigration enforcement.

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      Agreement model
      Agency type
    • Jails and facilities that hold people under contract with ICE.

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