The Watch Network

The Covenant maintains a federation of public accountability registries — open, searchable records of those who hold power over others. Each registry lets anyone search a subject, view a trust score built from filed records, and submit a sworn violation backed by evidence.

The registries are free to browse. Filing a report costs a small donation ($5), which funds the infrastructure and discourages frivolous entries. Every entry is a sworn declaration and is held to the network's published standards for citation, data integrity, discovery, and right of reply.

This is the public-record arm of the Covenant's Enforcement jurisdiction: where the Tribunal renders private judgment and the Denunciations register names breaches of standing within the Covenant, the Watch Network turns sworn accounts of public-office conduct into a permanent, verifiable, searchable record.

How the registries work

Every registry runs the same model:

• Search is open. Anyone can look up a subject and read what has been filed, with citations.
• Records are sworn. A filing is a sworn declaration, not an anonymous comment. The filer attests to its truth and supplies supporting evidence.
• Trust scores are derived, not editorial. A subject's score is computed from the filed record — it is a summary of what has been sworn and documented, not an opinion of the Covenant.
• Right of reply. Subjects may respond to entries; the network follows published editorial and data-integrity standards.
• Federated, independent. Each registry stands on its own domain and infrastructure, joined by a common standard rather than a single chokepoint.

Why the Covenant operates them

Power exercised over others — by police, judges, officials, physicians, or clergy — leaves a record only if someone keeps it. Public bodies rarely keep an honest one about themselves. The Watch Network exists so that sworn, cited accounts of that conduct are not lost: gathered in the open, preserved against deletion, and searchable by anyone the conduct might touch next.

It is accountability as public record — the same discipline the Covenant applies inwardly through the Tribunal, turned toward the offices that claim authority over its members.