About this registry

Emergency notice

This app does not contact emergency services and is not a substitute for calling 911. If there is a fire, injury, or crime in progress, call 911. For an active nuisance, also call your local non-emergency line so there is an official dispatch record — then log it here.

How records are kept honest

• Every report is captured straight from a contributor’s phone and stored in a way that’s built to be tamper-evident.
• Timestamps: the time a report comes in is set by our server’s clock, not the sender’s phone, so it can’t be back-dated. The contributor separately states when the incident happened.
• Append-only: once stored, a report can’t be edited or deleted. The database rejects any change. Corrections are made only by adding a new, logged status update — the original always stays.
• Tamper-evident chain: each report is sealed with a SHA-256 fingerprint that includes the one before it, so changing any past record breaks the chain for every record after it and can’t go unnoticed. Photos, video, and audio are tied to their report by a fingerprint of the file itself.
• Anyone can re-check the whole chain at any time, and that result is printed on every export.
• Audit trail: every submission, view, and export is written to an append-only log.

Your privacy

• You can report anonymously. Verifying an email or phone simply adds weight to your report.
• Your IP address is never stored — only a one-way salted hash, used to limit spam.
• Photos, video, and audio are stored privately and shared only through evidence exports you generate.
• This is an incident log, not a registry of people. We record what was observed and the direction it came from — never accusations against named individuals.
• We use privacy-friendly, cookieless analytics to count page visits and where they came from. No cookies, no cross-site tracking, no personal profiles.

Relevant law

• • California Health & Safety Code §12500 et seq. — State Fireworks Law; “dangerous fireworks” are illegal statewide.
• • San Diego County Code — fireworks regulations in unincorporated areas.
• • City of Vista Municipal Code — local fireworks prohibitions and penalties.

This is community-collected information provided to assist law enforcement and local government. Reports reflect contributors’ observations. Locations marked as a source reflect the direction or area an incident was observed from and are not accusations against any named individual.