Amplifying stories & documenting resistance 🌲

Zoned Out PNW covers the real topics shaping the Greater Seattle Region. I film what’s happening in the streets, talk to the people living through it, and bring attention to the stories the legacy newsrooms never seem to follow.

Protests & Advocacy Policing & surveillance Climate & infrastructure

Dashboard in progress

See who’s scanning plates — and who they share with.

A public-facing tool built from Flock transparency portals, records requests, and local reporting.

Open FlockWatch

Recent field notes

Short clips from the region — full stories coming soon.

Coverage

Placeholder stories while the newsroom spins up.

Housing & zoning

Tenants vs. timelines: why public comment always lands at 2 p.m.

A forthcoming explainer on how meeting scheduling, process language, and “outreach” quietly mute renters and workers.

Feature • Coming soon

Transit & streets

The bus stop, the bike lane, and the missing sidewalk.

A reporting series on how small gaps in basic infrastructure stack into huge barriers for disabled riders, elders, and kids.

Series • In development

Policing & surveillance

Who profits when your plate is scanned?

Following the money, vendors, and cross-agency data swaps behind Flock and other ALPR systems in Cascadia.

Investigation • Research phase

Project status

FlockWatch dashboard + first features are in progress.

Zoned Out PNW and FlockWatch are still in active development. The dashboard, scraping pipeline, and manual research are being tuned so that counts, agencies, and “disabled” statuses stay accurate for Cascadia readers.

Right now, the focus is on:

Daily Flock scraping & QA Manual fixes for WA agencies ALPR transparency stories Smoother FlockWatch UI

Expect things to move fast and occasionally break — feedback from tenants, riders, workers, and neighbors is very welcome.