About MyTown

MyTown is a plain-English index of US local-government meetings — city councils, planning commissions, zoning boards, school and county bodies. We pull agendas directly from the official meeting-management systems cities publish through, summarize them with AI, and always link the primary document.

Nothing here is editorial. If the summary and the agenda disagree, the agenda wins — read it before acting. Coverage is growing city by city; if your town is missing, it likely publishes on a platform we haven't wired up yet.

What we do not claim. This is not every local-government meeting in the country. It is what we could collect from the portals governments chose to publish on — deep where a city runs a structured records system, thin where a small town posts a PDF to a webpage, missing where nothing is posted at all. So treat any number here as a floor, not a total. Where our record of a place is empty or out of date, the page says so instead of showing you a blank section: the coverage page lists every place we track and how current each one is.

Public records shouldn't need a subscription, a law degree, or a free afternoon to read. That's why everything here is free — and the entire dataset is downloadable under CC BY 4.0.

MyTown is part of The Boring Parts, which does the same job for the federal government: every rule, executive action, and bill, in plain English.