Launching locality
Manheim Township, PA
A citizen-run digest that tracks selected public Manheim Township sources, highlights what changed, and links back to the original records.
Platform home
Follow local government updates without pretending to be local government.
The Local Record is an independent platform for source-linked municipal digests. Locality pages live underneath it.
What the platform does
- Fetches public municipal sources on a schedule.
- Detects what changed and keeps source hashes.
- Auto-publishes official-source updates.
- Holds unofficial-source items for review.
What this is not
Not an official township website, not a proxy for public notices, and not a place for unsupported interpretation.
How the product works
1
Sources are registered per municipality, not scraped blindly.
2
Every item is normalized, hashed, and compared against prior fetches.
3
Official-source items publish automatically with source links.
4
Corrections stay visible and the source trail remains intact.
Live localities
Current rollout
Transparency
Source first
Each public entry is supposed to trace back to the original municipal record, with enough metadata to inspect what changed and when it was fetched.
Editorial posture
Conservative by design
Official sources publish automatically. Unofficial sources are where review begins.
Operations
Multi-tenant foundation
Manheim Township is the first launch. The architecture is already organized to support more municipalities under separate slugs as the source registry grows.