We're a citizen-led accountability project. We read the minutes, follow the money, cite our sources, and hold local officials to the promises they ran on. No party. No spin. Just the record.
Citizens for Sane Leaders supports democratic leadership that plays by the rules. We believe most local officials serve honorably. But when an official rewrites, sidesteps, or sues away the rules that limit their own power, someone has to notice, document it, and tell the voters.
That someone is us. We started in Clarkstown, in Rockland County, New York, and we're building tools that any community can use. Self-dealing incumbents aren't a local problem. They're everywhere.
A promise made to voters is a contract. Officials who campaign on limits to power should live under them, not litigate their way out.
Public business belongs in public view. We turn dense meeting minutes into plain-English summaries anyone can read in two minutes.
Every claim we make links to a court ruling, an official record, or independent reporting. If we can't source it, we don't say it.
Democracy is won or lost closest to home. Town halls decide your taxes, your roads, and your police, and get the least scrutiny of all.
AI-assisted, human-reviewed summaries of every published Clarkstown public meeting: Town Board, Planning, Zoning, Ethics, and more. Know what your government decided last Tuesday without reading forty pages of minutes.
Every town in Rockland County deserves the same sunlight. Four towns live, one to go:
Minutes Monitors live in Clarkstown, Orangetown, Ramapo, and Haverstraw, plus a growing base of informed neighbors.
Stony Point comes online, plus resident letters on every meeting. Every town board, on the record.
Formal registration so we can endorse, fund, and campaign for rule-respecting leaders, transparently.
Open tools and a repeatable model any community can use to watch its own town hall.
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