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How to read your government’s record

This is the public record of your government, organized around the questions that matter most — who governs, where the money comes from, who gets the contracts. We ask the record; we do not accuse. Here is how to read it.

Why every finding is a question

The public record can show a pattern — a vote, a donation, a contract — but a pattern is not a verdict. So we ask the question and invite the government to show the record, rather than assume the answer. Every item on an oversight page is a question for the people and the officials alike — never an accusation.

Everything is sourced

Each question names the public record behind it: campaign-spending filings, county contract awards, council minutes, committee testimony, permits. If a claim cannot be traced to a named public record, we do not show it. You can follow every link back to the source and see it for yourself.

When it says “the record is still being gathered”

Some governments have a deeper public record than others. An empty page does not mean nothing is happening — it means no finding has yet met the bar to be shown publicly. We request the missing records (a UIPA request under Hawaiʻi’s open-records law) and they appear here as they come back. We never fill a gap with a guess, and never with another government’s data.

The people’s records are free

Reading your government’s record always costs nothing. That is the covenant we hold ourselves to — serve equals charge: we never charge for what the public is already owed. Paid tools are only the extra help (drafting, analysis, oversight assistance); the record itself is, and stays, free.

What stays private

The deeper working files — the prosecutorial preparation behind a question — stay private and are never published. Only sourced questions that clear an integrity review reach this public page. The same standard we hold the government to, we hold ourselves to.

How to use it

1. Pick your government on the home page. 2. Open its dashboard. 3. Open “Questions for oversight.” 4. Read each question and follow the links to the public records behind it. After that, explore any part of the record freely — agendas, money, contracts, federal dollars, minutes.

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Public record · sourced · framed as questions, never accusations · the people’s records stay free · generated 2026-06-20 12:54 HST · aloha · pono

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