This site uses AI to read long public documents faster. It does not use AI to decide what is true, and it never publishes anything a human has not read first.
Where AI is used
- Summarizing official documents. Council agendas and minutes run to dozens of pages. A language model produces a first draft summary from the official text, which is then edited by a person against the source document before anything is published.
- Plain-language glosses. Turning “a motion to approve Ordinance 2026-14 amending Title 17” into a sentence a resident can act on. The original wording always stays on the page next to the gloss.
- Sorting and tagging. Grouping motions by subject so they can be browsed.
Where AI is never used
- Vote counts and vote attribution. Who voted which way is taken directly from the official record and checked by eye. A model is never asked to count votes or to say how a named person voted. Getting this wrong would be both the easiest mistake to make and the most damaging one possible, so the shortcut is closed off entirely.
- Quotes. Anything in quotation marks on this site is verbatim from a document, a recording, or a conversation.
- Anything published unreviewed. There is a human approval step between every machine-generated draft and every published page. No exceptions.
What this means for you
If a page carries a number, a vote, or a quote, a person checked it against the source — and the source is linked so you can check it too. If a page carries a summary, a person wrote or edited that summary. AI shortens the reading, not the responsibility.
If you find an error, the corrections policy applies exactly the same way regardless of whether software was involved in the draft.