Officials & Contacts
Find elected officials and local government staff, including available email addresses and phone numbers.
The app
Practical tools for following local government.
Citizen Playbook helps you find public information, understand government documents, prepare useful questions, and communicate more effectively about decisions in your community.
What you can do
Six tools, each built around a task people run into when they try to follow a local decision.
Meeting Agendas & AI Analysis
Find upcoming council meetings when the public source allows it, review an agenda packet, identify significant items, examine individual proposals, and look for issues that deserve closer attention.
Public Records Request Builder
Create a ready-to-send public-records request with state-specific guidance, deadline tracking, and follow-up letters.
Public Comment Generator
Prepare spoken or emailed public comments, choose an appropriate tone, and revise the result before sending or presenting it yourself.
Document Analyzer
Upload an agenda, budget, contract, report, or other government document for a plain-language explanation, possible concerns, questions to ask, and follow-up analysis.
Representative Profile Builder
Research an elected official’s public record, examine meeting minutes for recorded votes, and export a formatted profile.
How it works
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Choose a tool
Start with the task that matches what you’re trying to learn or accomplish.
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Provide the information
Enter a location, answer a few questions, or upload the relevant public document.
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Review the result
Use the result as a starting point, check important details, and decide what to do next.
More detail lives in two places: the App Privacy Policy covers what happens to your information, and the AI and Data Use Disclosure explains which tools use AI and which do not.
Learn the process behind the tools
The Citizen Playbook book explains how local decisions develop, what information matters, and how citizens can participate more effectively. It provides the broader instruction, context, and real-world guidance that the app isn’t designed to replace.