Local Government Intelligence

Never miss a vote,
hearing, or draft ordinance again

STRisker monitors local governments across the United States, continuously indexing meetings, documents, and policy discussions so you're the first to know when something changes in your markets.

  • New ordinances, regulation changes, and proposals surface automatically. No manual searching required.
  • Keyword alerts fire within hours of a new document being indexed across 5,599+ jurisdictions
  • We pull the data together so you can plan ahead and get back to running your business

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What's included

Every data feed, every plan

A complete view of what STRisker monitors, how far back you can search, and what's available on each plan.

Free — no account needed
All paid plans (Local+)
Professional+
Add-on required
Enterprise only
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Writing

Editorial content — published by STRisker's team covering STR and Data Center policy

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Alerts
Daily Notes Published weekdays
Plain-English summary of policy changes, meetings, and regulatory activity across STR and Data Center topics
Free — no login
All published issues
✓ Email
Weekly Briefings Published weekly
Weekly roundup of the most significant regulatory developments across STR and Data Center policy
Free — no login
All published issues
✓ Email
Bulletins Published as needed
Breaking news alerts on the most significant policy developments — published at editorial discretion, not by schedule
Free — no login
All published issues
✓ Email
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Policy Tracker

Structured intelligence on every active ordinance, proposal, and regulatory change

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Policy Tracker Filtered to your locations
Every active policy in your monitored markets — with full lifecycle tracking (Research → Draft → Voting → Approved → Implemented), linked news articles, source documents, tags, and verified timestamps
All paid plans
1 year included 3 years with Market History Full history with Deep Archive
✓ Keyword alerts
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Government Calendar

Upcoming meetings, hearings, and enforcement deadlines across your markets

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Government Calendar Filtered to your locations
City council meetings, planning commissions, public hearings, county board meetings, and enforcement deadlines — upcoming and past, with links to agendas, recordings, and minutes
All paid plans
1 year included 3 years with Market History Full history with Deep Archive
✓ Meeting alerts
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Documents

Full-text search across millions of government documents and 617,000+ meeting recordings

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Government Documents — all types share the same archive depth
Agendas & Minutes
Meeting agendas and official minutes from city councils, planning commissions, and county boards — full text with AI summaries
All paid plans
1 year included 3 years with Market History Full history with Deep Archive
✓ Keyword alerts
Ordinances & Regulations
Proposed and enacted ordinances, zoning filings, land-use amendments, and regulatory filings — full text with AI summaries
All paid plans
1 year included 3 years with Market History Full history with Deep Archive
✓ Keyword alerts
Staff Reports & Policy Proposals
Staff analysis reports, policy proposals, public hearing notices, and planning department filings — full text with AI summaries
All paid plans
1 year included 3 years with Market History Full history with Deep Archive
✓ Keyword alerts
Recordings & Transcripts
Meeting Recordings 617,000+ indexed
Audio and video recordings from government meetings — streamed in-app where available, linked externally otherwise. Captures deliberation that never makes it into official minutes.
All paid plans
1 year included 3 years with Market History Full history with Deep Archive
✓ Keyword alerts
Meeting Transcripts Full-text searchable
Full transcripts sourced from YouTube and government portals — searchable in full text with AI-generated summaries on every entry
All paid plans
1 year included 3 years with Market History Full history with Deep Archive
✓ Keyword alerts
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Sources

The complete directory of officials, offices, accounts, and archives for each jurisdiction

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Officials
Elected officials and planning commissioners per jurisdiction — continuously updated as leadership changes
All paid plans
Current record
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Offices
Government office contact information — departments, addresses, phones, and websites per jurisdiction
All paid plans
Current record
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Gov Socials
Directory of official government social media accounts per jurisdiction — the account list, not the post stream (see Signals for posts)
All paid plans
Current record
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Documents
All indexed documents for a specific jurisdiction — same document index as the Documents section, scoped per source
All paid plans
1 year included 3 years with Market History Full history with Deep Archive
✓ Keyword alerts
Archives & Portals
Documents pulled and indexed from government archive portals — not outbound links, fully searchable within STRisker
All paid plans
1 year included 3 years with Market History Full history with Deep Archive
✓ Keyword alerts
Podcasts
Government-related podcast directory per jurisdiction — episodes are transcribed, indexed, and searchable (episodes also appear in Signals)
All paid plans
1 year included 3 years with Market History Full history with Deep Archive
✓ Keyword alerts
Resources
Regulatory guides, compliance references, and curated resources per jurisdiction
All paid plans
Unlimited
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Signals

Real-time social, news, and media feeds — News and Bookmarks on all plans, social and media feeds require Political Intelligence add-on

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Included on all paid plans
News Local news coverage
Local news articles covering policy, regulation, and government activity — filtered to your monitored locations with date range filtering
All paid plans
1 year included 3 years with Market History Full history with Deep Archive
✓ Keyword alerts
Bookmarks Your saved items
Save any item from across all Signals feeds — posts, articles, videos, podcast episodes — for quick reference
All paid plans
As long as bookmarked
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Political Intelligence add-on required (Professional+ plans)
Twitter / X Officials & gov accounts
Posts from elected officials and official government accounts — with engagement metrics, keyword tags, and follower context
Add-on: Pro+
1 year included 3 years with Market History Full history with Deep Archive
✓ Keyword alerts
Instagram Officials & gov accounts
Instagram posts from elected officials and official government accounts — with engagement metrics and keyword tags
Add-on: Pro+
1 year included 3 years with Market History Full history with Deep Archive
✓ Keyword alerts
TikTok Officials & gov accounts
TikTok videos from elected officials and official government accounts — with engagement metrics and keyword tags
Add-on: Pro+
1 year included 3 years with Market History Full history with Deep Archive
✓ Keyword alerts
Podcasts Episodes — transcribed & searchable
Government-related podcast episodes — transcribed and full-text searchable. Same content as Sources → Podcasts, presented as an episode stream
Add-on: Pro+
1 year included 3 years with Market History Full history with Deep Archive
✓ Keyword alerts
Videos Gov video content
Government meeting recordings and official video content from YouTube and government channels — keyword searchable
Add-on: Pro+
1 year included 3 years with Market History Full history with Deep Archive
✓ Keyword alerts
Voting History Coming soon
Official voting records on ordinances, zoning decisions, and local policy measures — who voted, how, and when
Coming soon
TBD at launch
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Alerts & Monitoring

The controls that drive what STRisker watches, when it alerts you, and how it delivers information

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What it covers
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Daily Digest Daily or weekly — your choice
AI-summarized highlights from your monitored locations — personalized to the jurisdictions and topics you're tracking. Switch to weekly frequency anytime.
All paid plans
Scoped to your active monitored locations
✓ Email
Keyword Alerts Fires on new document indexing
Set custom keywords and get alerted the moment a matching document is indexed across your monitored locations — across all feed types including documents, news, transcripts, and Signals
All paid plans
25 keywords — Local
100 keywords — Professional
500 keywords — Advanced
Unlimited — Enterprise
✓ Email, Slack, webhook
Watches Saved monitoring groups
Group locations and keywords into named watchlists — useful for organizing markets, clients, topics, or portfolio segments into distinct monitoring buckets
All paid plans
No limit
✓ Per watchlist
Locations Active monitored jurisdictions
Activate specific cities, counties, or states for live monitoring — save unlimited favorites to your account and activate up to your plan limit for real-time coverage
All paid plans
25 active — Local
100 active — Professional
500 active — Advanced
Unlimited — Enterprise
Saved favorites: unlimited on all plans
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Webhooks & Integrations Zapier, Make, Slack, and more
Route alerts and policy data into your own tools — Zapier, Make, Slack, or any custom endpoint. Pipe regulatory changes directly into your workflow.
Professional+
Unlimited webhook endpoints
✓ Webhook
API Access Policy & regulatory data stream
Stream policy updates, documents, and regulatory changes into your own applications, dashboards, or data pipelines. Signals API access matches your Signals plan access.
Professional+
Real-time feeds — Enterprise
✓ REST API
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Archive depth applies consistently across all data feeds
All paid plans include 1 year of archive access across Policy Tracker, Calendar, Documents, Sources, and Signals. Extend to 3 years with Market History ($250/mo), or access the complete historical record with Deep Archive (custom pricing). Archive depth is the same rule regardless of which feed you're searching.

Frequently asked questions

Strisker monitors 5,599+ cities, counties, and local government bodies across the United States.

About Strisker

Strisker is a local government intelligence platform. We monitor thousands of city councils, planning commissions, county boards, and government bodies across the United States — indexing meetings, documents, ordinances, and policy discussions in near real-time so professionals can understand what's changing and where.

Instead of manually tracking dozens of government websites, Strisker aggregates official sources, surfaces relevant policy activity, and delivers structured intelligence through a searchable dashboard, customizable alerts, and a structured Policy Tracker — so you spend less time monitoring and more time acting on what you find.

Strisker is built for professionals whose work is shaped by local government decisions. Common users include:

  • Government affairs and advocacy teams
  • Real estate investors and property managers
  • STR operators and vacation rental companies
  • Researchers and journalists covering local policy
  • Attorneys and policy analysts
  • Mortgage and insurance underwriters
  • Industry groups and trade associations
  • Data teams building on top of local government data via API

If your work depends on knowing what local governments are doing — or what they're about to do — Strisker is built for you.

You can. But local government information is fragmented across thousands of separate systems — city websites, meeting portals, document archives, social media accounts, and news sources. That's just for a single jurisdiction. Multiply that across dozens or hundreds of markets and it quickly becomes unmanageable.

Building a reliable monitoring system yourself means maintaining scrapers, tracking thousands of government portals, handling different document formats, and updating infrastructure every time those systems change.

Strisker aggregates and continuously monitors these sources so you don't have to. For teams that want to go further, Strisker also provides API access, webhooks, and integrations — so you can build your own workflows and dashboards on top of the data without building the monitoring layer from scratch.

Data & Coverage

Strisker continuously monitors a wide range of local government sources, including:

  • City council meetings and agendas
  • Planning commission meetings and minutes
  • County board meetings and staff reports
  • Proposed ordinances and regulatory filings
  • Zoning and land-use discussions
  • Policy proposals and public hearing notices
  • Official government social media accounts
  • Local news coverage related to regulation and policy

Many of these sources reveal policy changes while they're still being discussed — often weeks or months before they become law.

Strisker tracks any policy topic that moves through local government. While short-term rental regulations were the original focus, the platform now covers a broad range of local policy areas, including:

  • Zoning and land-use changes
  • Housing and affordability policy
  • Data center development and permitting
  • Tourism and hospitality regulation
  • Autonomous vehicle and emerging technology policy
  • Environmental and infrastructure ordinances
  • Any issue where local regulatory decisions affect your business or research

You control what you track through custom keywords, location watchlists, and topic filters — so Strisker surfaces what matters to you, regardless of industry.

Strisker aggregates information directly from official government sources — meeting agendas, minutes, ordinances, policy documents, and official social media accounts. The Policy Tracker includes "Last Verified" timestamps on every entry so you can see exactly when a policy was last confirmed.

Because local regulations often evolve through public meetings before becoming law, Strisker surfaces both current regulations and active policy discussions that may affect future rules.

Users should always verify final legal requirements with the relevant local government authority before making compliance decisions.

Strisker provides structured intelligence across several data types:

  • Policy Tracker — active ordinances, proposals, and regulatory updates with live status, news correlation, and verified timestamps
  • Government Calendar — upcoming meetings, hearings, and enforcement deadlines
  • Documents — agendas, minutes, staff reports, ordinances, zoning filings, and more
  • Meeting recordings and transcripts — 617,000+ recordings searchable in full text with AI summaries
  • Sources — officials, offices, government social accounts, archives, podcasts, and resources per jurisdiction
  • Signals — social media activity from elected officials and government accounts (Political Intelligence add-on)

Strisker currently monitors 5,599 cities and counties across the United States, with select coverage in international markets. You can search for specific locations directly in the platform after signing up.

If a location you need isn't currently covered, contact us — we can often add monitoring for additional jurisdictions.

Most monitored sources are updated within hours of new government documents or meeting materials being published. Because local governments operate on different schedules, the exact timing of updates varies by jurisdiction.

When a new document is indexed, keyword alerts fire automatically — so you don't need to check the dashboard manually. Strisker monitors continuously in the background.

Alerts & Features

Yes. Strisker can notify you when relevant activity occurs in any location you track, including:

  • New government meetings and published agendas
  • Proposed ordinances and policy filings
  • Regulatory changes and council votes
  • News coverage related to meetings, officials, or regulations
  • Social media activity from elected officials and official government accounts

Alerts are delivered via email, Slack, or webhook — and fire within hours of a new document being indexed.

Your monitoring starts immediately after you set up your locations and keywords. Alerts fire within hours of a matching document being indexed — but when you receive your first alert depends on when your tracked jurisdictions publish new material.

Most monitored sources are updated within hours of publication. If a government body hasn't published anything new since you signed up, your first alert will arrive when they do.

Yes. You can create Watchlists to monitor specific cities, counties, or policy topics. You can also set custom keywords — Strisker will alert you any time those terms appear in a newly indexed document across your tracked locations.

The number of active monitored locations and custom keywords available depends on your plan — Local (25), Professional (100), Advanced (500), or Enterprise (unlimited).

Pricing & Trial

The free trial gives you full access to your chosen plan — no credit card required. You'll have access to the Policy Tracker, Government Calendar, document search, keyword alerts, and all features included in your selected tier.

At the end of the trial you can subscribe to continue, or simply let it expire. No charges, no automatic enrollment.

It depends on how many markets you need to monitor and whether you're working alone or with a team:

  • Local ($100/mo) — best for individuals monitoring up to 25 jurisdictions. Solo use, 1 team member.
  • Professional ($250/mo) — best for teams tracking up to 100 jurisdictions. Adds API access, webhooks, and 3 team members.
  • Advanced ($750/mo) — best for organizations with multi-region coverage. Up to 500 locations, 10 team members, Destination Dashboards, and a founder onboarding call with Will.
  • Enterprise (custom) — for organizations needing nationwide coverage, unlimited locations, real-time API feeds, SSO, and dedicated support.

Not sure? Email Will directly and he'll help you figure out the right fit.

Daily Notes and Weekly Briefings are free for everyone — no account required. They deliver plain-English summaries of what's happening across local government to your inbox. A great way to stay informed passively.

A paid plan gives you active monitoring, not just summaries. With a paid plan you can:

  • Set keyword alerts that fire the moment a matching document is indexed
  • Access the full Policy Tracker with status, news correlation, and verified timestamps
  • Search millions of documents and 617,000+ meeting transcripts in full text
  • Monitor specific cities and jurisdictions relevant to your work
  • Access the Government Calendar, Sources, and API integrations

Think of free briefings as the news feed — paid plans are the intelligence layer.

You can upgrade to a higher plan at any time. If you need to track a very large number of locations, contact us about Enterprise — which offers unlimited locations, keywords, and alerts with custom pricing.

Yes. We offer 50% off your first year for qualifying founders, journalists, researchers, and non-profits. Eligible groups include:

  • Founders & Early-Stage Builders — recently founded (within 2 years) or bootstrapped, any industry
  • Journalists & Researchers — active press credential, .edu email, or published work covering local government, housing, land use, or any policy area where local decisions matter
  • Non-Profits — 501(c)(3) or equivalent, including housing advocacy orgs, tenant groups, civic tech organizations, and public-interest research institutions

Email will@strisker.com with a brief description of your work and which category applies — we'll verify and apply the discount within 24 hours.

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