How this data works

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Our data-governance rules

1. Official text only. Bill titles, summaries, and status language come from the official source word-for-word. We do not publish editorial summaries or AI-generated rewrites. If a plain-language explanation is ever added, it will be clearly labeled as ours and shown next to — never instead of — the official text.
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Sources

• Colorado General Assembly (leg.colorado.gov) — the official source of record for Colorado bills, actions, votes, and full text.
• Open States — a structured mirror of official state data, used to organize and cross-check records. Where the mirror and the official site disagree, the official site governs.
• City and County of Denver (denver.legistar.com) — the official source of record for Denver City Council bills and resolutions, their actions, and their filed text, published through the city’s Legistar system.
• City of Lakewood (lakewoodco.gov) — the official source of record for Lakewood City Council ordinances, published by the City Clerk as signed ordinance documents and a council voting index. Records built from the signed document show its full history; records built from the index show the final action the index records, and each record names its source.
• City of Sheridan (ci.sheridan.co.us) — the official source of record for Sheridan City Council ordinances and resolutions, published through the city’s CivicPlus Agenda Center. A record exists only for a numbered measure the council’s published agenda names as an item, and shows the agenda section that listed it; a stage is shown only where the agenda itself states one, and no outcome is claimed where the agenda does not state one.
• City of Glendale (glendale.co.us) — the official source of record for Glendale City Council ordinances and resolutions, published through the city’s CivicPlus Agenda Center. A record exists only for a numbered measure the council’s published agenda names as an item; Glendale’s agendas state no reading stage or outcome, so its records show where each measure was listed and claim nothing further.
• City of Brighton (brightonco.gov) — the official source of record for Brighton City Council ordinances and resolutions, published through the city’s CivicPlus Agenda Center. Each measure carries the item ID the city assigns it, which persists across meetings, and the formal caption the agenda prints; a reading stage is shown only where the agenda states one, and no outcome is claimed where the agenda does not state one.
• Town of Parker (parkerco.portal.civicclerk.com) — the official source of record for Parker Town Council ordinances and resolutions, published through the town’s CivicClerk portal. Records show the printed measure number and formal title, the agenda section, staff summaries where the town entered them, and recorded votes where the town entered them; the system’s per-item status field is empty town-wide, so a stage is shown only where the item itself states one.
• City of Westminster (westminsterco.gov) — the official source of record for Westminster City Council ordinances and resolutions: the vote traces and Summaries of Proceedings the city posts for each meeting, together with signed ordinance documents from its DocumentCenter. Enacted is shown only where the signed ordinance itself was read; measures approved inside an unpulled consent block are not itemized in the vote trace and so do not appear, and only part of the adopted-ordinance archive could be enumerated.
• City of Englewood (englewoodgov.civicweb.net) — the official source of record for Englewood City Council bills and resolutions, published in the city’s CivicWeb meeting packets, which carry each meeting’s agenda and the previous meeting’s draft minutes. Records show the formal captions the minutes print and the outcomes the minutes state; a vote tally is shown only where the minutes print the item’s own tally table. Packet coverage is partial — some 2026 packets could not be located — so some measures do not appear.
• City of Edgewater (edgewaterco.gov) — the official source of record for Edgewater City Council ordinances and resolutions: the agenda item packets, agendas, and minutes the city publishes as documents on its website. Coverage is partial — the site refuses automated fetching, so records were built only from documents that could be read and verified one by one — and a status is shown only in the words the document itself uses.
• City of Golden (goldenco.granicus.com) — the official source of record for Golden City Council ordinances and resolutions: the council meeting agendas and agenda documents the city publishes through its Granicus archive (goldenco.granicus.com), with adopted ordinances confirmed against the City Clerk's published legal notices. A status is shown only in the words the agenda itself uses — the reading or adoption consideration the item states — except where the Clerk's list confirms an ordinance as adopted.
• Town of Castle Rock (castlerock-co.granicus.com) — the official source of record for Castle Rock Town Council ordinances and resolutions: the council agendas and minutes the town publishes through its Granicus archive (castlerock-co.granicus.com), with recently adopted ordinances confirmed against the town's published Public Notice of Ordinances. Minutes are published only for part of the year, so a status is shown only where an agenda states the measure's stage or published minutes or notices record its outcome.
• City of Thornton (thorntonco.gov) — the official source of record for Thornton City Council ordinances and resolutions: the Council Record of Votes the city publishes for each meeting (the items considered, their published results, and the member vote lists), together with the city’s Approved Ordinances notices, which give each adopted ordinance’s full caption and its first and second reading dates. Thornton publishes no measure numbers on these pages, so a record is identified by the city’s own notice name; a vote tally is shown only where an item carries its own published result and member lists — Consent Calendar items share the calendar’s single result and show no tally.
• City of Aurora (auroragov.org) — the official source of record for Aurora City Council ordinances and resolutions: the council meeting agendas and the per-meeting Voting Results the city publishes in the document library on its Council Meetings page. A record exists only for an item whose agenda caption carries a measure number, and shows the agenda section that listed it and any sponsor the agenda prints; a vote is shown only where the measure was voted individually — Consent Calendar items are voted as one block and show no individual tally — and a status is shown only in the words the sources use: the result of the latest individual vote, the consent block's result for a consent item, or First Reading for an introduced ordinance.
• City of Arvada (arvadaco.portal.civicclerk.com) — the official source of record for Arvada City Council ordinances (Council Bills) and resolutions: the council meeting item trees the city publishes through its CivicClerk system. A record exists only for a numbered measure an agenda item names, and shows the agenda section that listed it and the staff summary where the city entered one; the city enters no votes and no per-item status in the system, so a stage is shown only where the agenda section itself states one — First Reading — and no outcome is claimed.
• City of Northglenn (webdocs.northglenn.org) — the official source of record for Northglenn City Council ordinances (Council Bills) and resolutions: the meeting agendas and action agendas the city publishes in its Public Meeting Records system. A record exists only for a numbered measure an agenda names, and shows the outcome word and tally the action agenda prints for it — consent items are listed individually there and carry their own tallies; the surname printed on every agenda item is the Mayor’s presenter label, not a sponsor, and no sponsors or summaries are published per measure.
• City and County of Broomfield (broomfield.org) — the official source of record for ordinances of the City and County of Broomfield: the legal notices the city publishes on its City Council Ordinances page, each with the status phrase the city prints and the ordinance’s title, linking the official document — for a first reading, the notice of public hearing containing the full ordinance text, linked here as the record’s text after content verification; for an adoption, a one-page notice of passage, which is not the text and is not linked as one. The notices publish no vote tallies or sponsors, and resolutions do not appear on this page.
• City of Littleton (littletonco.gov) — the official source of record for Littleton City Council ordinances and resolutions: the council agendas the city publishes through its OneMeeting (Granicus/PrimeGov) system. A record exists only for a numbered measure an agenda names, and its status is only the latest stage the agendas themselves state — the city’s published minutes cannot be machine-read reliably, so no outcomes or votes are shown; the published agendas currently run through September 22, 2026.
• City of Greenwood Village (greenwoodvillage.com) — the official source of record for Greenwood Village City Council ordinances and resolutions: the meeting data the city publishes through its CivicClerk portal. A record exists only for a numbered measure an agenda item names, and shows the reading stage the item's name states, the city's staff summary where one is published, and the votes the city has entered — motion, stated outcome, and counts. The surname printed after some items is the presenter, not a sponsor, and is not shown as one.
• City of Federal Heights (fedheights.org) — the official source of record for Federal Heights City Council ordinances and resolutions: the meeting minutes the city publishes in its minutes archive. A record exists only for a numbered measure a minutes document names, and the disposition the minutes state — the motion and its outcome — rides verbatim in the record's history. The minutes print no per-item vote tallies, so no counts are shown; an ordinance's status is the latest reading the minutes state, and a resolution whose approval the minutes record is shown as Adopted.
• City of Lone Tree (cityoflonetree.com) — the official source of record for Lone Tree City Council ordinances and resolutions: the council agendas the city publishes through its CivicWeb portal (the portal's older address stopped updating in October 2025; records are built from the current one). A record exists only for a numbered measure an agenda names, and its status is only the latest stage the caption itself states — the agendas publish no per-item outcomes or votes, so none are shown; the published agendas currently run through October 6, 2026.
• City of Boulder (bouldercolorado.gov) — the official source of record for Boulder City Council ordinances and resolutions: the council agendas the city publishes through its OneMeeting portal. A record exists only for a numbered measure an agenda names, and its status is only the latest reading its captions state — Boulder ordinances can reach a third reading. Measures of the district boards the council recesses into (general improvement districts, the Downtown Commercial District, and similar bodies) are not City Council measures and are not included. The agendas publish no outcomes, so none are shown.
• City of Commerce City (c3gov.com) — the official source of record for Commerce City Council ordinances and resolutions, published through the city’s Legistar system. A record exists only for a numbered ordinance or resolution that system carries for the City Council; statuses and action text are the system’s own words, and a vote tally is shown only where an action carries one. Measures of the city’s district boards and authorities are separate records in that system and are not included.

What this tool is not

It is not legal advice, and it is not a complete substitute for the official record — committee documents, amendments, and journal entries live on the official site, and every bill page here links straight to them.

Verification and corrections

Every record carries a SHA-256 fingerprint of its official content, shown under “Verify this record” on its bill page — the field list and the exact computation method are documented in the project’s data-source notes, so anyone can recompute a fingerprint from the official record and compare it with ours. If we publish an error of our own, we correct it and record the correction publicly in the corrections log, which also lists defects we know about and have not fixed yet.