About Civic Brief Alerts
Local government should be easier to follow.
What it does
Civic Brief Alerts turns official public sources into plain-English civic intelligence. It helps users follow public meetings, projects, rezonings, development activity, road and utility work, code questions, state bills, and location-based alerts.
Why it exists
Important public decisions are often spread across agendas, packets, minutes, recordings, code libraries, GIS layers, reports, and agency websites. Civic Brief helps residents, business owners, property owners, journalists, and civic users see what matters without losing the official source trail.
How AI is used
AI helps draft summaries, extract topics, identify possible locations, and organize source material. It may make mistakes, omit context, or misunderstand source language, so review status and official links remain visible.
Human review
Editors can review summaries, compare official minutes, approve Civic Intelligence items, and correct source-linked records before they are presented as reviewed public information.
What Civic Brief does not do
Civic Brief Alerts does not replace official government records, legal notices, agendas, minutes, code interpretations, zoning determinations, GIS records, permits, or professional advice. Always review the official source before relying on a public action, deadline, permit requirement, or property determination.
Report an error
Each public meeting page includes a Report a correction form. Use it to identify the section, requested correction, and supporting source when available. Editors can then review and resolve the request.