Civic action · by Tristin Hassell
Officials, meetings and rights
iPhone with iOS 17 or later
A civic-action toolkit for people who want to do something about what their government and the companies around them are doing. It runs on your iPhone with no account and no tracking, and it never sends anything for you.
Enter a ZIP code for your U.S. Senators; add an address, or tap once to use your location, for your House member and state districts. Call, email or open each official’s contact page with a short script. With your own free OpenStates key, see your state legislators too.
See upcoming council and committee meetings, agendas and agenda items from your city or county’s Legistar system, set a reminder, and write a public comment on any item.
A map of license plate readers (including Flock cameras), data centers, prisons, jails and immigration detention facilities from OpenStreetMap and the U.S. Census Bureau, with sources and dates. Search your city’s legislative record for Flock, license plate reader and data-center items.
Advocacy letter templates on surveillance, data centers, immigrant defense, Palestine solidarity and animal welfare, plus general templates where you choose your own position. Every template is labelled and editable.
Upcoming events near you from Mobilize, with the organizer named. Boycott campaigns with sourced notes and optional reminders. Scan a barcode to see a product’s brand and whether it appears on the BDS movement’s published boycott list, with the source and date.
Record video with sound in one tap; recordings stay in the app until you save or share them. Offline rights cards cover immigration agents at your door, police stops, recording officials, protests and public meetings, each with sources.
Public records and published maps. Each item shows its source and date.
No. It helps draft a letter or shows a number. You decide whether to send or call.
No. You can type a ZIP code or address instead. Location is requested only when you choose to use it.
No. Suggestions keep your position, and you choose what to accept. Writing help needs iOS 26 on a supported iPhone.
A dedicated tab for license plate readers and data-center development in your community: what your city has decided, what is nearby, and how to take part.
Searches your city or county’s public legislative record for Flock, license plate reader and data-center items, so you can see what was proposed, approved or cancelled.
End or decline a Flock contract, limit data retention and sharing, request records and audit logs, ask for a data-center hearing, comment to a utility commission, and question a tax abatement.
Dated explainers, a checklist for speaking at a hearing, and a “What’s changed” timeline of state laws, cancelled contracts, moratoriums and utility decisions from 2024 to 2026, each with its source.
Note cameras you have seen. Your sightings stay on your iPhone.
Boycott listings are the published positions of the movements named, not statements of fact by Front Porch; companies often dispute them. Rights cards are general information, not legal advice. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License.
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Software by Tristin Hassell. Published by Gathered Commons Press LLC.