Understand Local Government in Minutes

We do the work, so you don't have to.

Civic Translator turns lengthy public meeting agendas, packets, reports, and recordings into clear information you can actually use.

Each publication includes a visual infographic for a quick overview and a detailed written summary explaining the major issues, financial matters, proposed actions, community impact, important dates, and next steps.

Civic Translator also tracks how public meetings change over time. For eligible regular meetings, we compare consecutive meeting packets to identify new topics, changed priorities, major decisions, repeated issues, and other meaningful developments between meetings. These cross-meeting comparisons help residents understand not just what happened at one meeting, but what changed from the previous meeting.

Browse coverage of school boards, city councils, county boards, and other public bodies without having to read hundreds of pages of meeting materials. Want to see your local government or school district on Civic Translator? Contact us to request it. New public organizations are added based on community interest and project priorities.

Civic Translator summarizes publicly available government meeting materials using automated software. While we strive for accuracy and continuously improve the platform, mistakes or missing context can occasionally occur. If you notice an inaccuracy or have suggestions for improving a summary, please contact us. We welcome feedback and corrections to help ensure the information we publish is as accurate and useful as possible.

Track What Changes Between Government Meetings

Unlike a traditional meeting archive, Civic Translator analyzes consecutive regular public meetings to highlight meaningful changes over time. Residents, journalists, researchers, and community members can quickly see new proposals, policy changes, financial developments, and unresolved issues without reading multiple meeting packets side by side.

Cross-meeting change summaries are created from official public meeting packet summaries and focus on material differences between meetings from the same public body.

Civic Translator API

Developers, researchers, journalists, and civic organizations can connect to Civic Translator's structured public-meeting data through our authenticated API.

The API provides access to covered public bodies, meeting and packet summary metadata, published infographic URLs, and detailed written summaries. Every request requires an API key.

To request an API key, contact Civic Translator.

Support Civic Translator

Civic Translator is an independent project dedicated to making local government easier to understand. Your support helps fund hosting, AI-powered meeting analysis, development, and new public bodies.

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