beacon
congress built the immigration court system. beacon makes it navigable.
not another raid map. beacon turns public EOIR court data, ICE facility records, and representative votes into due-process tools anyone can use — in english, spanish, and chinese.
the scale
"while raid-tracking apps use crowdsourced pins, beacon is built on congress's own FOIA data — with a client-side SHA-256 evidence chain for constitutional due process."
why not raid tracking
3.7M
cases backlog. families can't read 30GB of monthly EOIR releases. the data congress funds is public — but inaccessible.
86%
of detained immigrants proceed without a lawyer. due process shouldn't depend on parsing FOIA dumps.
beacon
zip-personalized court wait vs national average, enforcement pulse from FOIA stats, facility OIG flags, rights guides, tamper-evident evidence, rep watch.
raid maps
- crowdsourced pins
- politically polarizing
- no court context
- no due-process tools
beacon
- congress's EOIR FOIA data
- constitutional rights focus
- court journey + backlog
- SHA-256 evidence vault
11 modules click to open in app
- your brief
due process score + court comparison + alerts for your zip
↗ - court journey
6-step EOIR timeline from encounter to BIA appeal · EN / ES / 中文
↗ - facility atlas
35+ ICE detention centers with DHS OIG oversight flags
↗ - enforcement pulse
regional arrest stats from public FOIA data
↗ - court pulse
immigration court backlog charts from EOIR releases
↗ - know your rights
interactive 4th / 5th amendment guide
↗ - warrant check
judicial vs administrative warrant in 60 seconds
↗ - evidence vault
SHA-256 hash chain · data never leaves your device
↗ - family plan
10-item preparedness checklist + downloadable report
↗ - rep watch
your member's votes on detention & counsel bills
↗ - legal aid finder
free immigration attorneys by zip
↗
for judges · 90 seconds
- open demo → enter ZIP 95014
- your brief → due process score + court vs national
- tap SOS → 4th amendment emergency card
- evidence vault → add entry → verify SHA-256 chain
- rep watch → congressional accountability
stack
ZIP input → EOIR court lookup + due-process scoring Geo → Haversine facility distance + rep district Vault → Web Crypto SHA-256 chain (client-side only) Frontend → Vanilla JS · Leaflet · PWA service worker Backend → Python · FastAPI · public government datasets Deploy → Hugging Face Spaces · beacon.ideatr.dev
open source
beacon is mit licensed. fastapi backend, vanilla JS frontend, public government datasets. no accounts, no tracking, no server-side PII.
github.com/arjunkshah12345-hash/beacon →