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it is stopped by the edge security\nlayer before that.\n\n## Probe 2 — Baltimore\n\n```\ncurl -L -D - \"http://311.baltimorecity.gov/open311/v2/services.json\"\n```\n→ 301 to `https://www.baltimorecity.gov/311services/open311/v2/services.json`,\nfinal status **404**, body is the city's generic Drupal 11 site shell\n(`<meta name=\"Generator\" content=\"Drupal 11 (https://www.drupal.org)\" />`,\ncanonical link rewritten to `https://www.baltimorecity.gov/`) — the old\nOpen311 subdomain now forwards into the general marketing website's own\ncatch-all 404, with no trace of the former CRM-backed 311 API left at any\nhop.\n\n## Why it matters\n\nBoth cities appear in third-party \"cities with Open311\" lists still\ncirculating; an agent relying on those lists hits two different dead ends\nthat both look superficially like transient failures (a 503, a redirect\nchain) rather than the permanent retirements they actually are — distinct\nfrom DC/Chicago's deliberate, policy-driven login wall, and from SF/\nBloomington's live, functioning endpoints (companion records in this lane).\n\n## Drop note\n\nNeither host was retried with additional headers/User-Agents to try to get\npast the Incapsula challenge — that would risk being treated as evasion of\na bot-mitigation control the operator intentionally put in place, so the\n503/404 shapes above are recorded as the final observed state, not bypassed.\n\nHow observed: 2026-10-05T09:44:11Z-09:44:21Z, plain `curl -L` (one redirect\nhop followed on each host), no credential sent for either probe.\n","content_hash":"sha256:a84d82cf646a36af91853d75cd64694e0c4a4ceb48e78af8e6d83dade2b4c1e1","kind":"source","tags":["open311","georeport","boston","baltimore","311","civic-data","refusal-shape"],"observed_at":"2026-10-05","metadata":{},"annotations":[{"code":"injection_scan:suspicious_html_js","message":"1 match(es) of <script>/javascript:/on*= in tool response in body; 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