We know the current administration is trashing data and civic transparency. We want to make sure the local and county level are archived before this attitude trickles down. Your support makes sure we keep going. www.404media.co/trump-admini...

Huge thanks today to Jeff Atwood and the entire team at "Stay Gold" for donating $19k to our ongoing operations. If you want to join Stay Gold in making sure that civic transparency is golden for the long haul, you can become a founding band member at opencollective.com/civicband/co... #opendata

If we had an (auth'd, with usage limits) #mcp server that you could use with CivicBand sites, would you use it? Would you pay for it?

Check out this excellent roundup by founder @phildini.net of @civic.band history, from its start helping a few people in the local community (incl. me!) with research to where it stands today as the newest government transparency project fiscally sponsored by the Raft Foundation! Congratulations!

In 2022, a local #alamtg activist named Rasheed Shabazz was asking around on twitter about digitizing meeting minutes and monthly reports from local organizations as part of his ongoing research into the racial history of Alameda. 1/n

We have so many things coming up: - Email alerts for searches and cities - Indexing linked docs in minutes and agendas (budgets and legislation!) - Indexing campaign finance date for CA Follow here or sign up for our mailing list to know when we drop these. Boosts appreciated! #OpenData #CivicDate

Hey if you get home from the #HandsOff protest and want to make sure fascism isn't taking root where you live, I run civic.band, tracking the meetings for 700+ municipalities. We're going to launch email alerts soon, our mailing list is the best way to know when. @civic.band

CivicBand has over 8 million pages and 600 municipalities under index, searchable, queryable, and (soon) alertable. And we've only just begun.

Hello, #HarfordCounty, #MD! 8219 from #2017 to now. buff.ly/PDeZ0c5 Including: - Community Input Meetings - Development Advisory Committee - Board of Estimates - Historic Preservation Commission - Board of Health - Commission on Veteran's Affairs - Planning Advisory Board - and more!

Just added 5109 from #YakimaCounty, #WA -- starting in #2012 buff.ly/qvjC1CQ Including data from: - Board of Commissioners - Yakima County Planning Commission - GWMA Groundwater Advisory Committee - South Central Workforce Development Council

Up now: 2414 pages from #WilliamsonCounty, #TN, starting in #2021 buff.ly/JtRWOk0 Including data from: - County Commission - Election Commission - Planning Commission - Highway Commission - Board of Zoning Appeals - Storm Water Appeals Board - and more!

New site up: #MercedCounty, #CA with 2646 pages starting in #2017 buff.ly/jHA4590 Including data from: - Planning Commission - Behavioral Health Board - First 5 Commission - Children's System of Care - Probation Council - and many more!

Just added: 24281 pages from #LancasterCounty, #NE starting in #2019 buff.ly/8OC2Csf Including data from: - Board of Commissioners - Justice Council - Board of Equalization - Local Emergency Planning Committee - Pension Review Committee - Board of Corrections - and more!

Hello, #StJosephCounty, #IN. 10279 pages going back to #2013 buff.ly/UUYR0WQ Including data from the: - Board of Commissioners - County Council - Area Board of Zoning Appeals - Area Plan Commission - Redevelopment Commission - Plat Committee - Election Board - Drainage Board - and many more!

With 4737 pages from #2013 onward, we've added #ClevelandCounty, #OH to the roster buff.ly/dMpcEaf Meetings include: - County Commissioners - Budget Board - Excise Board - Tax Roll Correction Board - Equalization Board - Community Corrections Planning Council - Justice Authority and more!

New site up: #LorainCounty, #OH with 7362 pages starting in #2017 buff.ly/5Gf8I5w Data from meetings like: - Board of Commissioners - Records Commission - Port Authority Board of Directors - Workforce Development Board - Lorain County Land Bank Board - Investment Advisory Committee and more!

Just added: 1803 pages from #GloucesterCounty, #NJ starting from #2018 buff.ly/silOg1d Including records from: - Board of County Commissioners - Human Services Advisory Council - Mental Health Board - Local Citizens Transportation Advisory Committee and more!

New site up: #AllenCounty, #NJ with 8194 pages going back to #2014 buff.ly/VqdWSHO Meetings include: - County Council - Board of Commissioners - Drainage Board - Fort Wayne Plan Commision - Allen County Plan Commission - Redevelopment Commission - Board of Zoning Appeals and more!

Just added: 6198 pages from #Luzerne county, #PA, going back to 2012

Your region is going to be affected by #federal program cuts. Want to find out which ones, and get a head start on pushing your officials to find alts? 1. Go to civic.band 2. Find your city or county (don't see it? ping us and we'll add it) 3. Search for "federal" or "federal grant"

So I saw this article: sjvwater.org/decision-to-... And did a little digging on @civic.band's site for #tulare county: tulare-county.ca.civic.band And found that they cancelled the next water board meeting? tulare-county.ca.civic.band/meetings/age... So curious what's going on out there...

As the fires are put under control, there's going to be a lot of hard questions put before city and county governments. We're tracking more than 20 municipalities in the greater #LosAngeles and #SanDiego area, and we're looking for journalists and activisits who want this data for their reporting.

Trying to add every county in the US means that I have to rebuild the @civic.band pipeline again... this time using my NAS. We're tracking 3.5M pages across 237 municipalities now.

This is wild timing, but we have the minutes databases for LA County, the City of Los Angeles, and Ventura County available this week on https://civic.band LA County: https://buff.ly/3WkszLA City of LA: https://buff.ly/4hhnVWy Ventura County: https://buff.ly/3WfIhaD

Excited to see @civic.band add Tampa. tampa.fl.civic.band This facet excludes Code enforcement and calendars tampa.fl.civic.band/meetings/min...

We've officially crossed 2 Million pages tracked on CivicBand, and it's quite a nice number of municipalities we're tracking too.

Oh hey I had always wondered what they did. @civic.band tracks their meetings, making the minutes and agendas fully searchable: judicialcouncil.ca.civic.band

We’ve built a fetcher that works for municipalities like Santa Cruz County. What we did not expect was for the processing of these minutes files to take 48h and counting 🙃

Data only wants to be free with a strong push, funding us now is a lever and a place to stand. #SmallBusinessSaturday

To the server developers trying to block us by not accepting requests without User-Agents: You merely adopted the web. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn't see HTML until I was already a man, by then it was nothing to me but <>!”

Just fixing the granicus fetcher and adding 5k pages. As you do on a Saturday night.

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