Resources

Public tools for a public record.

These open published information. Bring a link back to your repository and mark where it came from. They are not a way to contact a family, name a suspect, or guess where someone is.

• OSINT Framework

  A public map of search starting points. Use it to find a published source, then save the link in your repository.

• Washington State Patrol missing persons

  The official adult posters in this archive. The photograph and PDF stay on this site.

• NamUs

  The national missing and unidentified persons system. Read the public record. Do not scrape it.

• Wayback Machine

  Older public copies of a news page or an agency page, when the live page has changed.

• Chronicling America

  Historic newspaper pages from the Library of Congress.

• Washington State Archives

  Public records the state archives have already released.

• Washington courts

  The court system’s own site for public case information. Use the portal the court provides.