CivicBand

You might have heard of the security vulnerability that came out today. I'm pleased to announce the CivicBand has updated all our services with the released fixes. Additionally, users of our packages should update to the latest, patched versions: pypi.org/project/clerk-fetche...

Today is my birthday. Today is also when I crossed 1200 municipalities tracked on @civic.band The best gift you could give me today is to sponsor a municipality by going to opencollective.com/civicband and making a recurring tax-deductible donation of $10/month. 🙇

Are you attending #PyConUS? CivicBand will be there, at the CivicTech Open Space (date/time tbd) and sprinting on the project Monday and Tuesday.

Anyone good at building search indexes and wants to help out with CivicBand? We really need to improve our cross-site full text search.

Sometimes you're casually adding new sites to @civic.band and you add some city in #Massachusetts you've never heard of and then you've added 5000 more documents to the index 😂 The well of #CivicData is so deep and so wide and we've only started dipping our toes in.

Currently writing the first-ever week-ahead look for CivicBand, a plan of what I'm hoping to ship. Subscribers to our OpenCollective (https://opencollective.com/civicband) get this first, and get to steer what we work on week-over-week.

Oh hey another one: #BeverlyHills has posted no #CityCouncil minutes for this year. Curious #CivicData #OpenData

Marin County has posted no minutes for the Board of Supervisors meetings for this whole year. Extremely weird. #MarinCounty #CivicData #OpenData

Continuing our deep dive, it looks like #Washington Township, #Indiana, stopped publishing City Council minutes? Anyone from around there want to investigate for us? #CivicData #OpenData

We're digging in to the sites that have fallen out of date, and apparently #BirminghamAL just stopped posting minutes in 2024? Not sure why? Anyone who lives there and wants to help us dig in, reach out! #OpenData #CivicData

We just added lancaster-county.pa.civic.band, and they have a Board of Supervisors' meeting tonight if anyone wants to do some public comment.

I've realized that in order to solve some queue worker forking issues I'm having on #macOS, I need to move the civicband/clerk workers to a docker config. If you want to follow along with that journey, DM for an invite to our Zulip instance.

Well, it finally happened. We got an IP block from one of the hosting providers holding the PDFs that powers us. Now we get to figure out what to do about it. It would be easier if these sites published actual APIs with tokens and rate-limits, but that's part of what we're solving. #OpenData

We're back in the capitol with #CampaignFinance data for #Sacramento, going back to 2001: https://sacramento.ca.civic.band/ #OpenData

In the airport on our way to exhibit at #SCALE23x! Come say hi at the expo hall this weekend.

We've added #CampaignFinance data to #Pacifica, going back to 2022: https://pacifica.ca.civic.band/ #OpenData

We've added #CampaignFinance data to #Fairfield, going back to 2022: https://fairfield.ca.civic.band/ #OpenData

We've added #CampaignFinance data to #Goleta, going back to 2022: https://goleta.ca.civic.band/ #OpenData

We've added #CampaignFinance data to #MorroBay starting in 2024 and updated every other day😘 https://morrobay.ca.civic.band/ #OpenData

Back in the Bay, we've added #CampaignFinance data to #Millbrae starting in 2023 and updated every other day: https://millbrae.ca.civic.band/ #OpenData

We've added #CampaignFinance data to #NewportBeach, going back to 2018, and updated every other day: https://newportbeach.ca.civic.band/ #OpenData

We've added #CampaignFinance data to #SanDimas going back to 2015: https://sandimas.ca.civic.band/ #OpenData

Ay caramba, #CampaignFinance data from #RanchoCucamonga, going back to 2016: https://ranchocucamonga.ca.civic.band/ #OpenData

We've added #CampaignFinance data to #MorenoValley starting in 2024 and updated every other day: https://morenovalley.ca.civic.band/ #OpenData

#CampaignFinance by-the-internet in #Carmel-by-the-sea, going back to 2021 and updated every other day: https://carmel.ca.civic.band/ #OpenData

The sun, the sand, and #CampaignFinance. We've added data for #ManhattanBeach, going back to 2017: https://manhattanbeach.ca.civic.band/ #OpenData

We've added #CampaignFinance data to #Murrieta, going back to 2014: https://murrieta.ca.civic.band/ #OpenData

We've added #CampaignFinance data for #Murrieta going back to 2014: https://murrieta.ca.civic.band/ #OpenData

We're back on the Peninsula in the #BayArea, adding #CampaignFinance data to #SanMateo going back to 2019: https://sanmateo.ca.civic.band #OpenData

We're back to the #BayArea, with #CampaignFinance data added to #Antioch, going back to 2020: https://antioch.ca.civic.band/ #OpenData

We've added #CampaignFinance data to #Coronado, going back to 2018: https://coronado.ca.civic.band/ #OpenData

We've added #CampaignFinance data for #Lancaster going back to 2019: https://lancaster.ca.civic.band/ #OpenData

We've added #CampaignFinance data to #Montebello, going back to 2024 and updated every other day: https://montebello.ca.civic.band/ #OpenData

Diving in to the #SanGabriel Valley, we've added #CampaignFinance data going back to 2023: https://sangabriel.ca.civic.band #OpenData

We've added #CampaignFinance data to #Cerritos, going back to 2024 and updated every other day: https://cerritos.ca.civic.band/ #OpenData

We've added #CampaignFinance data to #Temecula, going back to 2024 and updated every other day: https://temecula.ca.civic.band/ #OpenData

We've added #CampaignFinance data to #Salinas going back to 2022: https://salinas.ca.civic.band/ #OpenData

🧄! We've added #CampaignFinance data for #Gilroy going back to 2022: https://gilroy.ca.civic.band/ #OpenData

🍊! We've added #CampaignFinance data to the #CityOfOrange going back to 2020: https://orange.ca.civic.band/ #OpenData

One week from today we'll be at the Expo Hall at SCALE 23x in Pasadena! We want to see you there, and you can use code CIVIC for 50% off a pass.

Expanding our Peninsula coverage with #CampaignData for #FosterCity going back to 2024 and updated every other day: https://fostercity.ca.civic.band/ #OpenDat

We've added #CampaignFinance data to #Hesperia going back to 2018: https://hesperia.ca.civic.band/ #OpenData

Back to the #BayArea with #CampaignFinance data for #MorganHill going back to 2017: https://morganhill.ca.civic.band/ #OpenData

We seem to be bouncing between deep #NorCal and deep Southern #California, so let's add some mountains. #CampaignFinance data going back to 2021 for #ShastaCounty https://shasta-county.ca.civic.band/ #OpenData

We've added #CampaignFinance data to #Malibu going back to 2020, and updated every other day: https://malibu.ca.civic.band/ #OpenData

Expanding our #CampaignFinance coverage in #SoCal, we've added data for #Pomona going back to 2020: https://pomona.ca.civic.band/ #OpenData

You can now explore #CampaignFinance data for #LaPuente, starting in 2024 and updated every other day: https://lapuente.ca.civic.band/ #OpenData

We've added #CampaignFinance data to #Chino, going back to 2023 and updated every other day. https://chino.ca.civic.band/ #OpenData

We've added #CampaignFinance data to #SanMateoCounty going back to 2016 https://sanmateo-county.ca.civic.band #OpenData

Continuing our #OpenData coverage for the #BayArea, we've added #CampaignFinance data to #Milpitas going back to 2020: https://milpitas.ca.civic.band/