πŸ› The Somerville Record

How accurate is this site?

Audited 2026-07-12 Β· sample seed 20260712 Β· raw results (CSV) Β· audit code

This site is assembled by software (much of it AI-written) from the city's Legistar API. Software makes mistakes, so we measure ours in public: we drew 1,000 matters at random β€” fixed, published seed, so anyone can re-draw the identical sample β€” fetched the city's live API record for each, and compared field by field.

1,000/1,000city records resolved 100.0%titles exact 100.0%file numbers exact 1fields changed since capture

What we compared

Every deviation found (1)

MatterTypeExplanation
26-0051status changedstatus: ours '' vs ''; β€” in the run this was the city updating the record the same day as the audit; the cache refreshes on the next pull

Method, honestly

The comparison is against what the city's API returns today β€” when a clerk updates a matter after we capture it, that surfaces here as a deviation until the next data pull. The audit code, the seed, and the raw results are published above; the auditor is software too, so check the checker. Found something wrong anyway? Every page has an error-report link in its footer β€” corrections are public.