Our roadmap
A clearer view of local decisions.
We’re making public records about surveillance easier to find, understand and follow. Here’s what you can use today—and where the work goes next.
Free research is available now. Change alerts are not available yet.
Available now
Use the research today
Explore 35 source-linked reports and a practical records-reading guide. Regional coverage includes the Upper Peninsula, northern Lower Michigan and Wisconsin. Berrien County is a separate comparative example.
Find your community
Start with a place, read what the records say, and check the original sources.
Follow a decision trail
See how proposals, approvals and payments connect—and where the record leaves questions open.
Make sense of a public record
Learn what a payment, meeting minute or policy can tell you—and what it cannot.
Follow research updates
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The next chapters
Where we’re going
These are our priorities, with room to learn as the research grows. No release date has been announced for new services.
Growing the research
More complete local stories
Bring more related records together so you can follow a proposal, an approval and the questions still unanswered.
In development
Briefs you can share
Concise, source-linked summaries for neighbors, newsrooms, libraries and community groups, with clear guidance for attribution and corrections.
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Free alerts when records change
Follow selected public records in an RSS feed app, with a short explanation, the original source link and any meeting, decision or comment deadline stated in the record.
The first planned coverage is the Upper Peninsula and Wisconsin. RSS subscriptions will be free. We’ll explain which sources are covered and how often they’re checked when alerts become available.
Longer term
More communities, carefully
Extend the collection to more places and surveillance-related decisions while keeping sources easy to check and gaps in coverage clear.
What you can count on
Free to read
The research stays open. Optional support won’t buy earlier alerts or priority coverage.
Sources you can check
Follow the original record and see the limits of each claim.
Room for correction
Questions, missing context and sourced corrections help make the work more useful.
Help make the research more useful
Have a question about a report, or found a public record that changes the picture? Please share public links, not private personal information.