Our mission is to make sure Black communities are not simply informed about the decisions shaping our future, but equipped to help make those decisions. An informed community is a powerful community.
Privacy
SourceLine exists so Black communities can see the public record and be counted. That only works if you can trust us with the little we ask of you. Here is all of it, in plain words.
We do not sell, rent or trade anything you give us, and we do not use it to ask you for money. We do not require your name to raise a concern or say where you stand.
Looking up an address or ZIP code to see who represents you is not saved to any record about you. We use it to find your districts and show the results, and that is all.
To raise a concern, add your voice or answer “Where do you stand?”, we ask for your home address once. We send it to the U.S. Census Bureau’s address service, or to Geocodio if the Census service cannot find it, to learn which county, city and districts hold it. Then we let the address go.
What we keep is a scrambled code made from the address, which cannot be turned back into it, and the list of districts it sits in. Your browser keeps a private pass for six months so you are not asked again. That is how we make sure each household is counted once and only by the people who live in the area.
The words of a concern you raise are published on SourceLine for the place it concerns. Your name is left off unless you choose to sign it. If you sign, the name you give is public, stays on the record and is shown as given by you, not checked by us. You can ask us to remove it. A name that matches a current officeholder is held for review before it appears. Your answer to “Where do you stand?” is counted in a total. We never show who answered.
We may share totals, never names or addresses, with the public body that decides the issue. Each of those sends is approved by SourceLine’s founder first.
Your browser holds a random code for this device. We keep that code and your network address only in scrambled form, with the network address scrambled again each day. We use them to limit repeat answers and to catch floods of fake ones. When an unusual number of new homes sign up in one place within an hour, their answers are held out of the public totals until we review them.
If you sign up for updates, your email address is kept by Brevo, the email service we use. You confirm by email before anything is sent, and every email has a link to stop them at any time.
If you use the form for organizations, we keep your name, email, organization and message so we can answer you. It reaches us by email through Brevo.
An official on an issue's decision path can post a response on that issue. We send a confirmation link to the official email we have on file for their office, and keep the response, their name and title and the date. Once confirmed, it is published word for word and stays on the public record.
The email and call buttons open your own email or phone. The message goes from you, not from us, and we never see it. We count only that a button was used, so we can show how many residents reached their officials.
Most of SourceLine is the public record: officials, votes, meetings, budgets, campaign reports and census figures, each with its source. Campaign reports filed with the Federal Election Commission and the Georgia State Ethics Commission name donors. We show donors’ names, amounts, dates and reported employers as filed, never their addresses or other contact information, and federal law forbids using those names to ask anyone for money.
The website runs at HostGator. The database runs at Supabase. Email is sent by Brevo. Addresses are matched by the U.S. Census Bureau and, as a backup, Geocodio. Each handles only what its part requires.
Write to info@mysourceline.com. If you want a concern you raised removed, or your email taken off our list, tell us and we will do it. SourceLine is not meant for children under 13.
Last updated October 29, 2026.
Every figure on this page shows the year it describes. Public agencies release their numbers on their own schedules, often a year or more after the work of counting is done. The Census Bureau, for example, publishes its five year community survey each December, and the national reading test is given every two years. That is why some figures are not from this year. SourceLine updates each one as soon as the agency publishes it.
For some counties and small towns, SourceLine has not found meeting records online. Where it has not, we add them as they become available. A page that says SourceLine hasn’t updated a record yet means exactly that.