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Claude Code helps build accessible database of local government meetings

A developer has created a website that provides plain-English summaries of local government meetings from over 2,400 US and Canadian cities. The project, built using Claude Code and local LLMs, aims to make civic information more accessible by transforming dense documents and varied software platforms into searchable, understandable briefs. The developer emphasizes the accuracy and traceability of the AI-generated summaries, with each summary linking to the original source and an open dataset available on Hugging Face. AI

IMPACT Increases accessibility of local government information through AI-powered summarization.

RANK_REASON Developer uses AI tool to build a civic information product.

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Claude Code helps build accessible database of local government meetings

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  1. r/ClaudeAI TIER_2 English(EN) · /u/mrjakob07 ·

    I used Claude Code to build a plain-English database of local government meetings for 2,400+ US & Canadian cities

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Local government is where the decisions that actually change your life get made — zoning, budgets, water rates, the $2M road contract — and almost nobody can find out what their city council is doing without sitting through a 3-hour meeting or re…