Something wrong, or missing?

Often, yes. Send the city and, if you know it, a link to where it publishes agendas. Adding a government whose records software we already read can take an afternoon. Adding one on a system we have never read takes considerably longer, because every vendor publishes differently and we verify each against real documents before it appears.

The bar for going live is the agenda: meetings, their items, and a stable link per item. Per-member votes are a bonus wherever the government records them, never a requirement.

Because that is all we hold for it. For 48 states, Civic Notice knows who currently holds every seat and nothing else: no bills, no agendas, no votes. Rather than show an empty calendar and let you conclude your legislature did nothing, that state's tab says plainly what is and is not there.

California and Idaho carry a full record today. The others move over as their archives are loaded and verified, and when they do it appears in the app without an update.

Because we will not write one. Summaries in Civic Notice are the government's own words or they do not appear. No AI-generated text, ever. A bias you cannot audit is worse than a gap you can see.

So where a government publishes a plain-language summary, you get it, labelled as theirs: California's Legislative Counsel's Digest, for instance, or a city's own description of an agenda item. Where it publishes only a title, you get the title and the record's own link.

Because every one of them is an editorial claim wearing arithmetic's clothes. A "voted with the mayor 82% of the time" figure depends entirely on which votes you count, and that choice is an argument, not a measurement. The same goes for "missed votes" totals, which mislead badly unless you separate quorum calls and procedural votes.

You get the list of votes and how each one was cast. What it means is yours to decide.

No. Agendas get amended and meetings get cancelled, sometimes hours beforehand. Civic Notice shows what the government has published as of our last read, marks cancelled meetings as cancelled, and links you to the source so you can confirm before you show up or speak.

Each government is re-read on its own schedule, typically every few hours. An item's page links to the government's own record, which is always the authority. If the two ever disagree, believe the government and please tell us.

No, and there isn't one to make. Civic Notice has no sign-in, no profile and no server that knows who you are. What you follow and which governments you have chosen stay on your device. See Privacy for exactly what that means.

Check that notifications are allowed for Civic Notice in iOS Settings, and that you have saved at least one item with an upcoming meeting. Reminders are scheduled by your device, so they also depend on the app having been opened recently enough to schedule them. If it still looks wrong, email us with your iOS version.

New construction and recently annexed areas are frequently missing from the U.S. Census geocoder, which is where the lookup starts. You can always type your city, county and state in by hand. The lookup is only a shortcut, and skipping it costs you nothing except district numbers on the Reps tab.