Free, sourced civic information for every U.S. county: where the money goes, line by line, every number linked to the public record it came from — plus petitions residents can sign and carry to their own officials.
- Live: countycommons.us · the fullest county site is Clark County, Arkansas
- Copy it for your county: COPY-THIS.md (also at /copy on any county site)
- License: code under MIT; data and site text under CC BY 4.0. Residents' personal information is never published or included.
- What this project will never do: NEVER.md · Threat model: SECURITY.md · Why it exists: THE-STORY.md
One Node.js process, server-rendered HTML, JSON files on disk, one small server. Each county is a settings file in config/ and a data folder in data/.
npm install
npm start
Started by Brayden Sanders. Sponsored by Ozark Cleaners.