Analysis, announcements, and insights from the Civic Informer team.
Washington's law is technically public, but it lives across dozens of government websites in thousands of PDFs. We pulled it into one open archive.
Civic Informer started with public safety in a handful of cities. Project o-civ is the bigger idea: every piece of civic information, made findable for the people it belongs to.
The difference between an incident report, an arrest, a charge, and a conviction — and why each stage tells a different story about public safety.
What is in a police incident report? A plain-English guide to case numbers, offense codes, narratives, and what reported really means.
A plain-English guide to understanding crime data — rates vs. counts, per-capita adjustments, reporting bias, and the limitations of all crime statistics.