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.
Terms of use
SourceLine is free for residents and built on the public record. These terms explain what you can do with it, what we ask of you, and what we promise in return. By using the site you agree to them.
SourceLine is the Black Civic Data Platform at mysourceline.com. It brings together public records about who decides, how they vote, where public money goes and how Black communities are doing, from city hall to Congress. Every figure names its official source and the date we checked it. SourceLine does not endorse candidates or parties.
You may read, look up, share and link to any page. You may quote our stories, findings and figures in your own work, with a clear credit to SourceLine and a link to the page you used. Teachers, students, organizers, reporters and residents are welcome to use what they find here.
The public records themselves belong to everyone. Votes, budgets, election results and Census figures come from government agencies, and you are free to get them from those agencies directly. Our sources are listed on every page.
You may not copy SourceLine in bulk. That means no scraping, crawling or downloading pages or data by automated means, no rebuilding the site or its database somewhere else, and no reselling or republishing our compiled records, stories, charts or maps as your own. Search engines that index pages to send people here are welcome.
You may not try to get around the limits that keep the site fair for everyone, test or break its security, or pretend to be someone you are not, including a public official.
Organizations that need larger downloads, comparisons across places or regular reports can ask about SourceLine Insights.
The name SourceLine, our logo, our stories and writing, and the way we select, arrange and explain the public record are the work of SourceLine and its founder, Kazemde Ajamu. They are protected by copyright and trademark law.
Concerns and stances you share are published for the place they concern. You may sign your name or stay anonymous. Keep it about public decisions: no threats, no hate, no private information about other people, and nothing you know to be false. We may hold, edit for privacy or remove anything that breaks these rules, and we label what residents say apart from the official record.
By sharing, you allow SourceLine to publish your words on the site and to share totals, never names or addresses, with the public body that decides the issue.
An official named on an issue may respond on the record. Responses are confirmed through the official's government email before they appear, and they are shown as the official's own words, apart from SourceLine's reporting.
We work to get every figure right and to show where it came from. Public agencies sometimes change or correct their own numbers, and we update ours when they do. If you find an error, report a correction and we will check it against the source.
SourceLine is information, not legal, financial or voting advice. For an official answer about your registration, your taxes or your rights, go to the agency named on the page.
SourceLine is offered as it is. We do our best to keep it running and accurate, but we cannot promise it will always be available or free of error, and we are not responsible for decisions made from it or for the websites we link to. As far as the law allows, SourceLine's responsibility for any claim about the site is limited to what you paid to use it, which for residents is nothing.
How we handle the little information we collect is explained on our privacy page.
We may update these terms as SourceLine grows. The date below shows the latest version. These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Georgia. Questions go to info@mysourceline.com.
Last updated October 30, 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.