Articles are written from public documents: agendas, minutes, staff reports, filings, datasets and official releases. We do not rewrite other outlets' reporting and we do not source from social media.
An article with an uncited factual claim is not published. Source links are checked before publication, and copies of source documents are retained so citations remain verifiable if a municipal website is reorganised.
Numbers, dates, vote counts and dollar figures are verified against the source document by a separate model from the one that drafted the article. A discrepancy blocks publication.
In civic coverage, people are named as the public record names them: councillors and their votes, staff and their reports, residents who put themselves on the record at a public meeting. In crime, court and enforcement items, private individuals are not named — an accusation is not a conviction, and our page outlives the outcome. Either way, a name can only reach the page if it appears in the cited source document; the system is built so it cannot add one.
Where the system is not confident, it publishes nothing rather than publishing a hedge. We do not infer motive, characterise people, or predict outcomes.
Errors are corrected in place and recorded in thecorrections log with the change and the reason. Nothing is removed from that log.