About Citizen Playbook

Local government shouldn’t feel out of reach.

Citizen Playbook helps ordinary people understand local decisions, find useful information, and participate more effectively in the communities where they live.

The project brings together practical instruction, real-world experience, and tools designed around the kinds of questions citizens face when they begin paying closer attention to local government.

Knowledge first. Practical tools when you need them.

The Citizen Playbook book explains how local government decisions develop, what information matters, and how citizens can become involved. The app helps with selected tasks such as finding officials, reviewing documents, preparing records requests, and drafting public comments.

The app supports the work. The book provides the broader lessons and guidance behind it.

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The author

About Mike Webb

Mike Webb has spent years following local government decisions, reading public documents, attending meetings, challenging laws, working with elected officials, and helping citizens understand issues affecting their communities.

His stories show what citizen involvement looks like in real life. Sometimes it means reading documents, tracing a public claim back to the facts, or asking the question everyone else has overlooked. Sometimes it means getting neighbors involved, walking affected property with officials, challenging an unnecessary project design, or turning an issue into proposed legislation.

Where to go next

Read about the book, look at what the app can do, or send a question.

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