WATCHTOWER 2.0 — BASELINE LEARNING
Legal Protections

Watching is legal. Documenting is protected.

ADS-B is an unencrypted public broadcast required by FAA regulation. Recording, analyzing, and publishing aircraft activity is constitutionally protected speech. Here is the framework that makes our findings hold up.

First Amendment

Publishing observations of public airspace activity is protected speech and protected press activity. We are journalists with sensors.

FAA 14 CFR § 91.119

Minimum safe altitudes over congested areas, residential, and uncongested zones. We document deviations against the published baseline.

42 U.S.C. § 1983

Civil rights remedy where state actors — including agencies operating or contracting aircraft — violate constitutional rights under color of law.

FOIA / State Public Records

Aircraft owned or operated by public agencies are subject to disclosure. We provide templates and tracking.

FRE 901 / 902 — Authentication

Our SHA-256 + Merkle chain satisfies authentication of digital records. Hashes are reproducible and tamper-evident.

Daubert / Frye Standards

Statistical anomaly detection with published baselines, peer-reviewable code, and known error rates clears the standard for expert evidence.

If you are affected

We do not provide legal advice. We provide evidence — clean, hashed, and exportable — to the attorney of your choice. We can refer you to civil rights practices that take qualifying cases on contingency.

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