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Life & fun · May 7, 2026

Civic Informer

Building better informed communities.

What it does

Private companies live under dashboards, KPIs, and quarterly scrutiny. Local government doesn't. Civic Informer applies the same standard to public safety. Every morning we turn a city's official police records into a plain-English briefing, with charts and maps, free and ad-free. Residents see what's actually happening. Agencies get usable data on their own work. Journalists get a real source instead of press releases. Bellingham and San Francisco are live; with more than a dozen queued.

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