Meeting Briefs
Skip hours of video. Read a citizen-first summary of what happened, what changed, what still is unresolved and where to verify it.
See a meeting brief →What can you do with FOIPub?
Turn City Hall into something you can actually follow.
FOIPub turns meetings, votes, filings, public records and policy trails into a civic dashboard built for ordinary residents—not insiders.
MeetingsKnow what happenedVotesSee who voted howPolicy OriginsFollow who helped shape itRecordsGet back to the source
Follow local government without living at City Hall
Vote Tracker
Track consequential motions, resolutions and ordinances with exact tallies and member-by-member positions when the official record supports them. Filter the ledger by topic, outcome or vote pattern, and compare two commissioners side-by-side without scoring them.
Explore verified votes →Policy Origin & Outside Influence
See documented outside input, drafting help and financial or contractual relationships behind consequential public decisions—without treating contact itself as wrongdoing.
Follow a policy trail →Leadership & Commissioner Profiles
Find the people currently making decisions and open their source-linked voting histories instead of relying on slogans or scores.
Meet city leadership →Citizen Filings
Follow petitions, complaints, written submissions and other citizen actions when they enter the public record, while suppressing unnecessary personal contact details.
Open citizen filings →Issue Trails
Follow a consequential topic across multiple meetings, votes, records and policy-origin documents instead of piecing the story together one agenda at a time.
Follow an issue →Search Everything
Search meetings, votes, officials, filings, resolutions, ordinances and policy-origin records from one index, then filter the results by record type.
Search Livingston →What's Next
See the next scheduled public meetings and agenda-item blurbs as soon as official material is available, so you can participate before the decision is made.
See upcoming meetings →Primary-Source Links
FOIPub points back to official agendas, packets, minutes, studies, videos and records so you can check the work yourself.
Open official resources →How City Hall Works
See the difference between the body that sets policy, the staff who implement it, the boards that advise or exercise statutory roles, and the public process connecting them.
Follow the decision path →Methodology & Verification
See exactly how FOIPub verifies votes, labels uncertainty, documents policy origins, builds issue trails and protects unnecessary personal details.
Read the methodology →Civic Glossary
Decode common City Hall terms like ordinance, resolution, quorum, consent agenda, work session and public hearing in plain English.
Open the glossary →Meeting Ready
Prepare for a City Commission meeting with a first-timer walkthrough, a neutral public-comment planner with speaking-time estimates, Livingston-specific participation rules, a sourced rights map, a printable guide, and an incident-preservation checklist.
Get Meeting Ready →Open Data
Download FOIPub’s structured meeting, vote, issue, policy-origin and citizen-filing data so the civic record is inspectable outside the website.
Download the data →Corrections & Transparency
See how FOIPub handles source upgrades, uncertainty, and material factual corrections instead of silently rewriting the record.
Read the corrections standard →Records Request Builder
Start from a policy-origin, consultant, compensation or development template—or build your own focused draft with dates, custodians, keywords and record types—then submit it through the City's official channel.
Draft a records request →Suggestions & Corrections
Tell FOIPub what is missing, confusing, worth covering next, or possibly wrong. Build a source-aware feedback message without creating an account or silently submitting anything.
Suggest an improvement →Useful when you have a specific question
Built for verification
You should never have to trust FOIPub blindly.
Every accountability feature is designed to lead back to the public record. If the evidence is incomplete, FOIPub says so instead of filling the gap with inference.
Primary sources firstUnverified facts stay unverifiedClaims and opinion are attributedNo political scoring or ideological labels
Live example
See what this looks like in a real community.
Livingston, Montana is the first full FOIPub locality dashboard.