Infrastructure for public interest work in Washington
Washington sits between bigger names on the map, while carrying its own history of estates, industry, regeneration, and decisions that land very specifically on local streets.
I build and protect the sites that write that history down. Static builds, Cloudflare setups, lawful fingerprinting, and evidence grade logging, tuned for projects that expect attention from institutions as well as residents in Oxclose, Barmston, Concord, Fatfield, and the wider Washington area.
Who this fits in Washington
The projects that need serious infrastructure here are usually the ones keeping records, not the ones sending out photo opportunities.
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Community and tenants groups
Resident led projects in Oxclose, Barmston, Concord, Fatfield, Lambton, Glebe, and other estates that track housing, antisocial behaviour, regeneration, and service changes over time.
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Watchdog and scrutiny projects
People documenting decisions by Sunderland City Council, housing providers, police, contractors, and regional bodies as they affect Washington specifically.
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Advocacy and support networks
Peer led and survivor led groups that need a stable site to explain what they do, publish information, and signpost support without depending on a social media feed that comes and goes.
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Independent media and blogs
Citizen journalists and issue focused blogs covering Washington life, estates, and local services that expect their work to travel beyond the town once people start sharing it.
If your work is lawful, serious, and likely to grow beyond private Facebook groups or WhatsApp chats, it belongs here even if your team is small.
What I actually do for Washington projects
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Static sites that stay up
Fast static builds served through Cloudflare instead of fragile plugin stacks and heavy dashboards. Good for projects that might suddenly be linked by journalists, campaigners, or people outside Washington.
See Secure static sites.
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Cloudflare firewall and routing
Firewall rules, bot mitigation, rate limits, and Workers tuned for public interest work. Search engines and accessibility tools are welcomed cleanly, scraping and hostile automation are treated as something that should have a cost.
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Evidence grade logging
Edge logs and exports that show what hit your site, when, and how it behaved. Structured so they can sit inside complaints, internal reviews, and regulator correspondence without needing translation.
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Monitoring aware fingerprinting
Lawful fingerprinting on your own domain so you can see repeat devices and evasive patterns, including quiet interest from councils, housing providers, contractors, and agencies that would prefer to stay blurred in the logs.
Detail and examples on Fingerprinting and Edge Tracker.
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Email and DNS that behave
SPF, DKIM, DMARC, and DNS configured so your emails reach residents, partner groups, media, and oversight bodies instead of dying in spam the moment you escalate something serious.
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Governance checks that match reality
Practical fixes to privacy notices, cookie wording, and data handling descriptions so they describe what your infrastructure actually does, not what a generic template claimed once on a different website.
Local realities in Washington
Washington is often treated as an in between place for statistics, while people there live with the outcomes of decisions made in other rooms.
Projects here often deal with housing, deprivation, policing, transport, health, and regeneration, mapped onto specific estates and centres. Once that detail is put online in one place, the audience can shift very quickly from local residents to regional and national attention.
A static site behind Cloudflare gives you infrastructure that behaves as if that attention was always expected, not as a surprise.
How I build for that context
- Infrastructure that assumes scrutiny from councils, combined authority teams, contractors, and agencies, as well as neighbours.
- Clear separation between content and technical work, so you keep full editorial control of what you publish.
- Logging and fingerprinting that make repeat actors visible, even when tools and IPs keep moving around.
- Documentation that trustees, volunteers, and organisers can actually follow without a security background.
Boundaries, stated clearly
These limits keep the work defensible for you and for me.
- Ki-Ki provides technical services only. I am not a publisher, editor, investigator, or legal adviser.
- I do not draft, upload, or assist with allegation content about named individuals. If you publish that kind of material, it is your decision and your responsibility.
- Any limited SEO or onboarding copy I prepare is neutral and only goes live after your written approval.
- You must not suggest that Ki-Ki endorses your campaign, your allegations, or your politics.
- If a project crosses into unlawful or high risk territory, I will refuse or terminate the work.
The full position is set out in the Neutral infrastructure policy, alongside the Terms of use and Privacy policy.
Questions Washington projects usually ask
Do you only work with established charities in Washington?
No. I work with small charities, CICs, informal groups, and individual projects, as long as the work is lawful, serious, and in the public interest.
Can you harden a site we already have?
Often yes. I can place an existing site behind Cloudflare, improve DNS and email, and introduce logging. If the current setup is too fragile, we can plan a move to a static build instead.
Will fingerprinting identify real people by name?
No. It identifies devices and behaviour that hit your site, not named individuals. It is set up as defensive monitoring and aligned with your policies. It is not a tool for personal doxxing.
Do you only work with projects in the main centres?
No. I work with projects across Washington, including Oxclose, Barmston, Concord, Fatfield, Lambton, Glebe, and surrounding areas, as long as the work is serious and in the public interest.
What if the council, a contractor, or an agency disputes what we publish?
I cannot give legal advice, however I can make sure your logs and technical position are clear enough to support conversations with lawyers, regulators, or oversight bodies if you choose to involve them.
Start a Washington focused conversation
If your project is based in Washington or heavily affects people there, tell me what you are building, what worries you, and what level of attention you expect. I will be honest about whether I am the right fit.