People love to turn public-records requests into morality plays. Who’s guilty. Who crossed a line. Who should be embarrassed. That’s not what this is. This PRR exists for one reason only: to test whether the City governs by process, or by vibes. Not people. Not personalities. Process. What We Know (and What We Don’t) From the records already produced, we …
Most discussions about AI in government focus on speed, efficiency, or automation. That misses the real shift. The most consequential change AI introduces to municipal governance is perfect literalism. AI doesn’t just make review faster. It makes review complete, exact, and unforgiving. The End of Institutional Slack Municipal systems evolved with several quiet assumptions: No one reads everything. No one …
