Research

What public-records requests reveal, in aggregate

We read the questions people file with city and state governments and publish the patterns, with names stripped out. These are early reads of activity that has not reached a court or a claim file yet. Aggregate and anonymized, never a profile of any single filer.

Signal Index · July 2026 · First edition

What 500 public-records requests told us in one window

Pre-litigation is half of everything, subrogation runs quieter than most expect, and the commercial requesters pulling these records leave a countable fingerprint. A first read across five city portals, honestly bounded.

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