GlossaryCivic Informer product vocabulary
Agency partnership
An agency partnership is a documented working relationship between Civic Informer and a public-safety agency for an agreed purpose and scope.
An agency partnership is a documented working relationship between Civic Informer and a public-safety agency for an agreed purpose and scope. It is distinct from using records that an agency makes public. A listed source, community reference page, pilot, or sample does not automatically establish a partnership, paying customer relationship, or agency endorsement.
Why the relationship label matters
Civic Informer works with agency partners and also explains records that agencies publish independently. Its company description makes that distinction explicit. Partnership, paid service, a pilot, and permission to share data can involve different arrangements; the relationship description should identify which one applies.
These labels communicate different facts. A partnership can address publication or another agreed service, but the label alone does not establish which products are included, whether money changes hands, or whether the agency has approved a particular public statement. The relevant agreement and authorized description determine those details.
Example
Hypothetical example: Civic Informer explains an agency's publicly released annual data on a community page. No agreement with that agency is documented in the example.
The agency can correctly be identified as the source of its records. It should not be described as a partner or customer solely because those records appear in a presentation. Public-source attribution and relationship attribution answer different questions.
Common confusion
An edition is a publishing product. A partnership is an organizational relationship. The existence and scope of each should be verified separately.
A pilot is a limited arrangement or test, not automatically a completed deployment. A paying customer and a data-sharing partner are also not interchangeable descriptions.
Scope and verification
Use the agreed purpose, participating organizations, current status, and approved relationship language. Do not infer endorsement from an agency name, logo, link, or public data feed. Claims about results, coverage, or legal compliance require their own evidence even when a partnership is established.