Your radar on legislation, not theirs on you.

Why CivicRadar exists

What we won't build

These choices are the product. A civic tool that quietly grew a feed, a follow graph, and a notification budget would stop being your radar and start being someone else's.

So, on the record, five things we won't do:

1. 01 — No feed.

   You will not open this site to a scrolling river of legislation. You ask it a question — what's moving in my state that touches who I am — and it answers. When you're done, you close the tab.

2. 02 — No follows.

   There is nothing to follow here. No accounts to subscribe to, no creators, no influencers translating policy at you. The sponsors of a bill are public record; the advocacy groups tracking it speak for themselves on their own sites.

3. 03 — No notifications you didn't ask for.

   We will never push you a tab badge, an email, or a phone buzz about a bill you didn't opt into. If alerts ever ship, they will be off until you turn them on, and the off switch will be one click away from the on switch.

4. 04 — No data sold.

   We don't sell anything about you, because we don't have anything about you to sell. Your ZIP and your identity selections live on your device. There is no file with your name on it on any server we run.

5. 05 — No account required.

   No sign-up, no email verification, no password to forget. The page works the first time you load it. If accounts ever ship, they will be optional and exist to sync your settings across devices — never to gate the bills.

None of this is a sacrifice on our end. It's the shape of a tool that works for the person reading it instead of the people measuring them.

Where the data comes from

We don't scrape statehouse PDFs in a basement. The bills, the sponsors, the votes, and the summaries you read here all come from places you can verify yourself.

OpenStates

Where we read state legislatures — bill text, sponsors, vote rolls, and committee status across all 50 states.

LegiScan

A second state-legislation source we cross-reference against OpenStates, so a bill that's missing from one usually still shows up from the other.

Congress.gov

The federal government's own bill record. Every U.S. House and Senate bill we surface is the version Congress publishes, not a paraphrase.

Anthropic (Claude)

When you ask for a plain-English summary of a bill, or a draft letter to your rep, the words are written by Claude — Anthropic's AI. We send only the bill excerpt and the prompt; Anthropic doesn't see who you are, because we don't either.

We name our sources because your radar should show its sources. If something we report disagrees with the legislature's own site, the legislature's site wins — and the freshness badge on every result links you straight there.

Privacy, in plain English

Most privacy policies are long because the company has a lot to confess. Ours is short because we don't.

Your ZIP code and the identity tags you pick stay in your browser's storage on your own device. Nothing about you is saved on a server with your name attached, because there is no server file with your name on it.

There's no account. Nothing to log into, nothing to log out of, no password to forget. You can use this from a library computer and walk away clean.

When you search, your ZIP and tags travel to OpenStates, Congress.gov, and our LegiScan-backed bill cache so they can return matching bills. Our cache only remembers state + keyword, not who asked. Two people in the same state asking about the same issue look identical to it.

When you ask Claude to draft a letter, the bill excerpt, your selected tags, and any sentence you wrote about your situation are sent to Anthropic so it can write back. The draft never lands on our servers. When you close the tab, it's gone unless you saved it yourself.

We don't sell data. We don't run analytics that track you across the web. There's nothing to sell and nothing to track.

On your device

On our server

ZIP code

not stored

Identity and issue tags

not stored

Anything you typed about yourself

not stored

Letters you drafted

not stored

 

A bill cache keyed by state + keyword, no person attached

You can erase what we know in one move: clear this site's storage in your browser, and we're back to knowing nothing about you. The radar resets to zero.