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These run on our own pages. Nobody can paywall them, take them down, or let them rot. When a source changes shape underneath them, we fix it here.
The only public tool that tallies every US federal terrorism bulletin. Live status of the one national alert stream, a count by year, the full 20-entry history back to 2015, and a table of which channels are public and which are actually countable. Built because no such public tally existed anywhere.
sid-ntas-monitor.surge.sh →New here? Read the friendly introduction — what the system is, what it does, and what it can and cannot tell you.
Live instrumentTwo desks, one subject intake. For an investigator: routes targeted queries into NamUs, Charley Project, Doe Network, NCMEC, state clearinghouses, and county ME/coroner pages, logs each hit, and flags when the same person turns up in two indexes under two spellings — that overlap is the finding. For a family searching: builds a print-ready flyer and the exact filing order (police report, NCIC, NamUs, NCMEC if a minor, state clearinghouse), and states plainly what it did and did not search.
It does not scrape or mirror any of those databases (none expose an open API), and it never touches NCIC.
sovereignintelligencedivision.com/missing-persons/ →An instrument is only worth hosting if it answers a question someone actually asked. The NTAS Monitor exists because a real question — how many public federal terror alerts this year? — had no published answer. The Missing Persons Console exists because a real person spent five years doing the search by hand. Both were built to a live question, not to fill a page.
We do not fake liveness. Where a page cannot reach a live source from inside a browser sandbox, it links out to the raw feed rather than pretending to poll it. An honest link beats a dead heartbeat.