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For Newsrooms

Cover more local government meetings with less effort.

  • Find stories across local government meetings
  • Verify details with searchable transcripts and source video
  • Strengthen your reporting with video highlights

For Civic Creators

Turn local meetings into compelling content in minutes.

  • Discover short, high-impact moments worth sharing
  • Add context and shape clips for your audience
  • Share social videos that spark interest in local government

Save hours a week on reporting now.

Share video when you’re ready.

Follow Local Meetings

Stop hunting across websites and YouTube channels. SeeGov collects your local government meetings in one hub and alerts you the moment they're ready.

Find News

Search within and across meetings. Scan agenda items and moment-by-moment notes, find quotes in the transcript, and verify in the video.

Create Video Highlights

Choose the moments worth sharing and add context. Use AI suggestions or refine selections in the transcript to create shorts or broader meeting reports.

Share Everywhere

Download clips, embed them in your stories, or post directly to social channels to reach and engage your audience.

SeeGov monitors hundreds of government bodies. Sign up and request any governments you don’t find.

Quickly review what happened and find the moments that matter.

Scan agenda items and moment notes, then check the transcript and source video.

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SeeGov Find showing a landlord-enforcement agenda item, Alderman Gregory's selected moment summary, transcript, and matching source video at the October 6 Springfield City Council meeting.

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Trusted by Newsrooms and Civic Creators

Our work is supported by Knight Foundation.

More than 100 local news organizations and civic creators across 37 states use SeeGov to enhance their local government coverage. They include hyperlocal outlets, regional public radio, and multi-state news organizations.

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Illinois Times
Springfield, IL
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Southpoint Access
Durham, NC
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Sioux Falls Simplified
Sioux Falls, SD
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National Trust for Local News
Colorado, Georgia, Maine
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Idaho Statesman
Boise, ID
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WUNC News
Chapel Hill, NC
Michelle Ownbey

“It’s a no-brainer tool for newsrooms — especially small, understaffed, overworked ones like ours.”

Michelle Ownbey, Illinois Times

Frequently Asked Questions

Thanks to our donors, SeeGov is free for most newsrooms and creators, and low cost for the rest. View plans.

Sign up and request the government bodies you need. We typically add new governments within one business day, so you can start monitoring their meetings right away.

Absolutely! Videos can be embedded on your website with no constraints.

You own any original content you create with SeeGov.

Yes, you may run ads alongside the video highlights on your site.

You maintain full editorial control. You decide what to highlight and what context to add.

For qualified publishers, we co-brand the videos you create.

Videos created with SeeGov may be shared without limits as long as the SeeGov brand is not removed.

Content created with SeeGov may be featured on the SeeGov site and our social properties. However, you are always prominently attributed as the creator, and we provide direct links back to your original publication. Our goal is to expand democratic participation and drive engagement to your reporting, not to compete as a news destination.

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Shared civic infrastructure, built for democracy

One meeting, shared by many

SeeGov processes each meeting once, creating a transcript, speaker identification, agenda breakdown, and moment-by-moment annotations that every newsroom and creator covering it can use. Sharing those resources lowers the effective cost per user and helps trusted local voices reach more residents.

A mission to expand participation

SeeGov exists to expand participation in democracy. We enable news organizations and civic creators to reach residents who may not otherwise receive civic information, helping them understand local government issues and how to participate. As a nonprofit, we focus on advancing that mission, not generating returns for investors.

We also work with Civic Data Tech, Big Local News, MuckRock, and others strengthening civic information and local democracy.