PublicWire
Stack of local newspapers
Civic Edition · Vol. I · Issue 001

Your town,
covered by
civic agents.

PublicWire is a civic investigation system designed to watch public records, compare changes, verify material claims, and publish only after evidence and reliability gates pass.

How it works
Sunday, July 26, 2026Google ADK · evidence-backed civic workflow

§ 01 · Your briefing

Four pages. One answer residents can use.

Start with what changed, what to do, and what remains unknown. Then open every source, claim, workflow contribution, and decision rule behind it.

Captured June NYC records make every typed evidence transition, bounded agent decision, and publication boundary inspectable.

Four sources joinedBounded reference run

NYC Bin requirement and enforcement dates

One usable checklist emerges from four official pages. The reviewer catches two plausible mistakes before the candidate reaches application review.

Reader audit

Answer first. Receipts and rules one click away.

Bottom line

If your property has 1 to 9 residential units, trash must go in an official NYC Bin starting June 1. Warnings run through September 7 and full enforcement begins September 8. The official bin rule does not extend to recycling or compost.

Read the briefing
What is new
  • The rule starts June 1, but full enforcement starts September 8.
  • Covered trash goes out after 6 PM in a secure-lid bin no larger than 55 gallons.
  • The published fine ladder is $50, $100, then $200 for later offenses.
  • Listed special-use buildings receiving DSNY collection can also be covered.
What residents can do
  1. Before trash setout

    Confirm whether your property is in the 1 to 9 unit group or a listed special use group.

    Owners · Building staff

  2. June 1, 2026

    Use the official NYC Bin for trash; keep recycling and compost requirements separate.

    Properties with 1 to 9 units

  3. September 8, 2026

    Correct noncompliant setout before full enforcement begins.

    Owners · Building staff

Beyond aggregation
What the workflow added
Select an outcome to audit it
Resident consequence
Four pages became one resident checklist

Residents do not have to reconcile requirement, enforcement, scope, eligibility, setout, and fines across separate agency pages.

6 linked claims
6 source receipts
Read the briefingOpen the case
Follow the handoffsSelect any step

§ 02 · The problem

Public information,
privately ignored.

Every day, your town hall posts agendas. Your county posts notices. Transit posts service changes. Permits get filed. PDFs get uploaded.

All of it is public. None of it is readable. Most of it stays buried until it affects someone, and by then it's too late to do anything about it.

The information isn't hidden. It's just shaped like government, not like a newspaper.

Newspaper pages and civic reporting
Source signal captured

§ 03 · How it works

A civic desk built around evidence.

PublicWire can watch, compare, verify, and maintain a public record. Live status appears only when persisted public data supports it.

  1. Stage 01

    Watch sources

    Capture approved public notices, agendas, alerts, and source versions for a supported civic area.

  2. Stage 02

    Compare changes

    Separate genuinely new claims from duplicates, routine filings, and source refreshes.

  3. Stage 03

    Verify evidence

    Map every material claim to an approved receipt. Missing support or a contradiction stops the current workflow at a bounded evidence boundary.

  4. Stage 04

    Publish, update, correct

    A deterministic gate controls publication. Later evidence creates an explicit update, clarification, correction, or retraction.

Implementation colophonGoogle ADK + Gemini API · Nimble · ClickHouse · Senso / cited.md · Datadog

§ 04 · Trust layer

Every material claim needs a receipt.

Select a claim to see the exact source excerpt, plus anything missing or in conflict.

Source before prose

Material claims are linked to captured source versions before drafting can begin.

Missing is visible

Unsupported, contradictory, or stale evidence produces an explicit hold rather than an empty confidence score.

Events are facts

Public activity is projected from allowlisted persisted event codes. Prompts and hidden reasoning are never provenance.

Corrections persist

Updates, clarifications, corrections, and retractions retain an immutable public history.

§ 05 , Why it wins

The convenience of a feed.
The discipline of a newsroom.

PublicWire is built for civic information that lives across layers. It does not ask residents to know which agency owns a problem before they can understand what changed.

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Compared with

Raw government sites

The gap

Accurate but scattered, slow to search, and written for compliance instead of residents.

PublicWire

One readable paper across state, county, city, transit, school, campus, and neighborhood layers.

Compared with

Search engines

The gap

Good for finding pages, weak at remembering what changed and why it matters locally.

PublicWire

The durable workflow is designed to compare captured source versions and separate material changes from routine updates.

Compared with

Social feeds

The gap

Fast, but noisy, unverified, and easy to detach from the original public record.

PublicWire

A confirmed brief links to reader-safe claim receipts, verification stages, and an immutable update record.

Compared with

Traditional local news

The gap

Valuable but thinly staffed; many civic updates never become articles.

PublicWire

A civic desk can expand source monitoring while deterministic gates keep unsupported work out of publication.

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Confirmed briefs, disclosed investigations, reference runs, and private work remain mechanically distinct.