The Civic Record

Civic transparency · national

See what your community is deciding.

The Civic Record is a national space where governments, journalists, watchdogs, and residents can publish and discuss the matters that shape their communities — each on their own page, under their own rules.

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Where do you fit?

A path for every civic role.

Find your community

See what your town council, county commission, school board, or HOA is doing. Read meeting minutes, comment on matters, and stay informed without scrolling through bad PDFs.

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Claim your organization

Governments, HOAs, school boards, professional associations — any body that meets and keeps minutes can publish here. Set the rules. Own the conversation. Reach your constituents directly.

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Cover what others miss

Journalists, watchdog groups, and engaged citizens can publish their own analysis alongside official records — under their own editorial voice, with their own audience.

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How it works

Publish. Connect. Discuss.

Three primitives. No editorializing. The platform indexes and presents — organizations and readers do the rest.

1

Publish

Organizations upload meeting minutes, agendas, and ordinances. The platform extracts the matters under discussion and links them to the meetings and the records that drove them.

2

Connect

When multiple organizations publish about the same civic question, the platform recognizes the connection and links them — each voice staying on its own page, under its own rules.

3

Discuss

Readers comment under the organization's own moderation rules. A two-report quarantine model keeps community standards without putting deletion power in any single hand.

What you get

Built for every part of civic life.

For residents

  • •Find every body that governs where you live
  • •Read meeting minutes and proposed decisions
  • •Comment, react, and share with neighbors

For governance bodies

  • •An official page you control, with your branding
  • •Drop-in document ingestion: PDFs become indexed records
  • •Comment moderation that respects your community's voice

For watchdogs & press

  • •Cover any body, with your own editorial voice
  • •Sit alongside official records, never under them
  • •Reach a local audience that wants the story

For everyone

  • •Free to browse, comment, and explore
  • •No ads, no engagement bait, no algorithm
  • •Search by ZIP, name, or location

Editorial principles

The Civic Record is infrastructure, not a publication.

The platform indexes, connects, and presents. It does not characterize, rate, or summarize the content organizations publish. Every voice keeps its own page, its own rules, and its own audience — while readers can see a decision from multiple perspectives at once.