Civic Brief

Civic Brief, LLC

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About this app

Civic Brief turns local government meeting agendas and minutes into briefings, so you can follow the decisions that affect your community without wading through hours of video or hundreds of pages of PDFs.

300+ GOVERNMENT BODIES

Civic Brief currently covers 300+ councils, commissions, and boards across Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, New York, Virginia, Colorado, Oregon, and Ohio — from Miami-Dade County, Jacksonville, Tampa, Orlando, Broward County, and Hillsborough County down to towns like Callahan and Hampton, as well as Suffolk County, NY, and Alexandria, VA.

Every body we cover is listed publicly, with a link to its own official meeting record wherever one is published. No account needed:

https://civic-brief.org/sources

Don't see your area? Request it in the app: Account → Manage coverage.

WHY LOCAL, AND WHY THIS

Most civic apps stop at your ballot and your members of Congress — things that matter every couple of years. Your city council meets every couple of weeks, and it decides the things you actually notice: what gets built on your street, what the tax rate is, which projects get funded next year.

Almost nobody reads that record, because it is a three-hour video and a 200-page packet. That is the part Civic Brief does for you.

WHERE THE INFORMATION COMES FROM

Every briefing is built from the official record a city or county publishes itself — its posted agenda, meeting packet, minutes, and video. We do not originate government information. We summarize what the government has already published.

Every briefing is tied to the specific documents it was written from. Open any meeting, and the briefing lists them under "Official records," with each one linking to the government's own page for that meeting. Nothing in a briefing comes from a source we do not name.

HOW BRIEFINGS ARE MADE

Briefings are generated automatically from the official record and linked to the source documents they came from. That is exactly why every briefing links its sources: the check on it never depends on trusting the software.

Briefings are a starting point, not the official record. Always verify anything important against the official agenda, minutes, or video linked on the briefing.

WHAT YOU GET

- Home feed of new briefings for the jurisdictions you follow
- A searchable meetings calendar, past and upcoming
- Follow any jurisdiction by ZIP code or name, and request coverage where it's missing
- Keyword alerts that notify you when a topic you're tracking comes up in a new meeting
- Full-text search across past briefings
- A home screen widget showing your latest coverage at a glance
- A layout built for foldables and tablets, not just phones

FREE AND PAID

Browse meeting listings and headline briefings for free, no account required. A Resident subscription ($5.99/month or $59.99/year) unlocks full briefing text, source document links, keyword alerts, and search across your followed jurisdictions.

ABOUT CIVIC BRIEF

Civic Brief is an independent, veteran-founded civic information project, published by Civic Brief, LLC. It is not a government app; it is not a government website, and it is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by any government agency.

Privacy policy: https://civic-brief.org/privacy

What’s new

Find your area faster.

Coverage now searches as you type, and the list is grouped by state and county instead of one long scroll.

"Request coverage" has moved to the top of the Coverage screen, so you can ask for a place we don't cover yet without scrolling past everywhere we do.