Every local decision, with the record behind it.
Lucera reads agendas, minutes and meeting video from city councils, county boards, school boards and the legislature. You see every vote, what the public said, and the money and lobbying around it, each linked to its source.
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This week’s public meetings. Taller means more on the agenda. Click one.
Example: real streets, made-up agendas. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.
90,837 local governments. Each keeps its own records.
City councils, county boards, school boards, sewer and transit districts. Each posts its agendas, minutes and video on its own website, in its own format, often as scanned PDFs. Keeping up with even one county means checking dozens of sites every week.
Count from the U.S. Census Bureau, 2022 Census of Governments.
Every agenda item, broken down.
Lucera turns each meeting into records you can search, filter and cite. For every item on every agenda you get:
- Every vote
- Who voted yes, who voted no, and who was absent, checked against the minutes.
- Every speaker
- How many people spoke for and against, and what worried them. It counts who showed up. It isn’t a poll.
- The money around it
- Donations to the members who voted, from the people and groups involved.
- The source, one click away
- The page in the minutes or the moment in the video. Copy a citation for any line.
Village board, regular meeting, Oct. 14
Rezone 40 acres for a business park
Approved 5 to 2. Two members voted no over truck traffic.
Minutes, page 417 people spoke. 14 opposed, 2 supported, 1 asked a question. Top concern: water.
Video, 41:10 to 1:38:052 of the 5 yes votes got donations from the applicant’s PAC in 2025.
Campaign finance reportsThe plan commission reviews the site plan on Dec. 2.
Agenda, item 6Follow an official from the village board to the statehouse.
Many state lawmakers start on a local board. Lucera links their local votes, their donors and the lobbying on their bills into one record, so you can see the whole path.
- 2021 Village board Votes yes to rezone 40 acres for a business park. Minutes, page 4
- 2022 Campaign money Gets $2,500 from the applicant’s PAC in the next village race. Campaign finance report
- 2024 Elected to the Assembly Wins the open seat for the district that includes the village. County canvass
- 2026 Lobbying on a bill 11 groups register on a bill about business park tax breaks. 7 for, 3 against, 1 other. Lobbying registrations
- 2026 State vote Votes yes. The bill passes the Assembly 55 to 42. Assembly roll call
Made-up example. Lucera shows the record and links the source. It doesn’t tell you what it means.
One address. Five local governments.
Take one block in downtown Milwaukee. Five different boards make decisions about it, each on its own schedule and its own website. Lucera reads all of them, so everything that touches a place shows up in one feed.
- Common Council City of Milwaukee, District 4 Zoning, police and fire, streets, the city budget.
- County Board Milwaukee County Buses, parks, the courts and jail, county taxes.
- School Board Milwaukee Public Schools School budgets, closings, start times, who runs the district.
- Sewerage Commission Metropolitan Sewerage District Sewers, flood control, the sewer charge on your tax bill.
- Technical College Board Milwaukee Area Technical College Classes, campuses, and its share of your property tax.
Know before the vote, not after.
Tell Lucera what you follow: places, issues, officials or bills. It tells you when they come up.
- We collect Every night we check each board’s website for new agendas, minutes and video, and keep a copy of the original.
- We read We pull out each motion, vote, speaker, name and dollar amount. A person checks anything we’re unsure of.
- You hear about it An alert when something you follow hits an agenda, and a short brief every week.
Your week
We read 214 meetings. 3 things you follow came up.
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City of Milwaukee, Common Council Passed 12 to 3
A closed school on the north side can become 60 apartments
Three members voted no over parking. The developer has to start within two years.
Minutes, page 6 Roll call, page 7
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Milwaukee County, Transportation committee Next Tuesday
A 25-cent bus fare increase is on the agenda
If the committee passes it, the full board votes on Nov. 20.
Agenda, item 7
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Milwaukee Public Schools, School Board Corrected
Later start times for high schools were approved 5 to 4
Our first version said 6 to 3. We fixed it on Nov. 12 and logged the change.
Minutes, page 3 Correction log
Made for people who follow local government closely.
Everyone gets the same data. What changes is what Lucera puts in front of you first.
- Government affairs Lobbying firms, trade groups, land-use lawyers “Who are the new legislators, and how did they vote back on their village board?” A file on every official: local votes, donors, and the lobbying on their bills.
- Newsrooms Reporters, editors, students “What happened at the meetings I missed, and is any of it a story?” Split votes, big contracts and late minutes flagged for you. Free for reporters.
- Advocacy groups Nonprofits and issue groups “Where is my issue coming up, across a hundred different boards?” An alert the day it hits an agenda, and how every town voted, side by side.
- Parties and campaigns County parties, candidates, staff “Who holds this seat, how do they vote, and who funds them?” A page for every seat and district, and a research packet before you file.
- People who live here Anyone “What’s about to change near me, and who decided it?” Free pages for every official and place, and a weekly email for your address.
Same data for every side.
Lucera doesn’t take sides. These rules hold no matter who’s paying.
Our green is the green of American road signs, the ones that tell you where you are. Votes, maps and charts never use red or blue.
- Every fact links to its source
- Nothing goes out without a link to the original page or the moment in the video.
- The record decides, not the AI
- AI helps us read. Every claim it makes is one click from the source, and a person checks anything it isn’t sure of.
- One product for every buyer
- Every side gets the same data in the same words. We publish the kinds of groups that pay us.
- Comments are counted, not polled
- We show how many people spoke for and against, always next to the vote. We never call it public opinion.
- Pages for public officials only
- People who speak at a meeting stay in the record, but they don’t get pages, and we never match them to voter files.
- Corrections are public
- Anyone can report an error. Every fix is logged where you can see it.
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