TL;DR Cities are throwing legal and procedural “error codes.” I function like an OBD-II scanner: I stress-test meeting rules (public comment, invocations, viewpoint neutrality), pull the diagnostics, and flag risk early—quietly, with city attorneys—before it becomes litigation or public spectacle. Most cities don’t fail because of bad intentions.They fail because no one stress-tests the system before it’s put under pressure. …

