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Government Edition · California
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One place to understand California government, public records, elections and the economic decisions shaping communities.
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Today in California
A daily window into meetings, legislation and public activity — organized around official sources and understandable context.
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Your California
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County, city or ZIP can resolve the public jurisdictions, officials, meetings, election information and community data connected to a user.
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Canonical geography
California counties and county equivalents
Each geography resolves backward to US-CA and forward into the same national place, records and program graph.
View all 58 canonical county relationships
Alameda CountyUS-CA-001 · FIPS 06001Alpine CountyUS-CA-003 · FIPS 06003Amador CountyUS-CA-005 · FIPS 06005Butte CountyUS-CA-007 · FIPS 06007Calaveras CountyUS-CA-009 · FIPS 06009Colusa CountyUS-CA-011 · FIPS 06011Contra Costa CountyUS-CA-013 · FIPS 06013Del Norte CountyUS-CA-015 · FIPS 06015El Dorado CountyUS-CA-017 · FIPS 06017Fresno CountyUS-CA-019 · FIPS 06019Glenn CountyUS-CA-021 · FIPS 06021Humboldt CountyUS-CA-023 · FIPS 06023Imperial CountyUS-CA-025 · FIPS 06025Inyo CountyUS-CA-027 · FIPS 06027Kern CountyUS-CA-029 · FIPS 06029Kings CountyUS-CA-031 · FIPS 06031Lake CountyUS-CA-033 · FIPS 06033Lassen CountyUS-CA-035 · FIPS 06035Los Angeles CountyUS-CA-037 · FIPS 06037Madera CountyUS-CA-039 · FIPS 06039Marin CountyUS-CA-041 · FIPS 06041Mariposa CountyUS-CA-043 · FIPS 06043Mendocino CountyUS-CA-045 · FIPS 06045Merced CountyUS-CA-047 · FIPS 06047Modoc CountyUS-CA-049 · FIPS 06049Mono CountyUS-CA-051 · FIPS 06051Monterey CountyUS-CA-053 · FIPS 06053Napa CountyUS-CA-055 · FIPS 06055Nevada CountyUS-CA-057 · FIPS 06057Orange CountyUS-CA-059 · FIPS 06059Placer CountyUS-CA-061 · FIPS 06061Plumas CountyUS-CA-063 · FIPS 06063Riverside CountyUS-CA-065 · FIPS 06065Sacramento CountyUS-CA-067 · FIPS 06067San Benito CountyUS-CA-069 · FIPS 06069San Bernardino CountyUS-CA-071 · FIPS 06071San Diego CountyUS-CA-073 · FIPS 06073San Francisco CountyUS-CA-075 · FIPS 06075San Joaquin CountyUS-CA-077 · FIPS 06077San Luis Obispo CountyUS-CA-079 · FIPS 06079San Mateo CountyUS-CA-081 · FIPS 06081Santa Barbara CountyUS-CA-083 · FIPS 06083Santa Clara CountyUS-CA-085 · FIPS 06085Santa Cruz CountyUS-CA-087 · FIPS 06087Shasta CountyUS-CA-089 · FIPS 06089Sierra CountyUS-CA-091 · FIPS 06091Siskiyou CountyUS-CA-093 · FIPS 06093Solano CountyUS-CA-095 · FIPS 06095Sonoma CountyUS-CA-097 · FIPS 06097Stanislaus CountyUS-CA-099 · FIPS 06099Sutter CountyUS-CA-101 · FIPS 06101Tehama CountyUS-CA-103 · FIPS 06103Trinity CountyUS-CA-105 · FIPS 06105Tulare CountyUS-CA-107 · FIPS 06107Tuolumne CountyUS-CA-109 · FIPS 06109Ventura CountyUS-CA-111 · FIPS 06111Yolo CountyUS-CA-113 · FIPS 06113Yuba CountyUS-CA-115 · FIPS 06115
Explore California
One state. Four ways in.
01 · PEOPLE
Officials & Candidates
Office, district, committees, public activity, election information and source-linked profiles.
02 · GOVERNMENT
Bills & Meetings
Legislation, committees, agendas, public actions and changes to the official record.
03 · COMMUNITIES
Economy & Development
Jobs, workforce, housing, infrastructure and public investment in context.
04 · LEARN
Government, Explained
Plain-English education on process, public records and economic-development tools.
DayMark Record
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Public Activity Record
Source-linked chronology with earlier and later official records retained separately.
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DayMark chronology ready
The template will render immutable record events after the state adapter and private LightHouse evidence layer are connected.
HistorySource-first
No fabricated political scores
Public output can show verified chronology and Beacon evidence confidence without inventing unsupported activity data.
Accountability workflows
Ask the official — or request the records.
Authenticated submissions are validated server-side, audited and routed without exposing official or custodian email mappings in page HTML.
PUBLIC RECORDS REQUEST
Request the underlying records.
Use the national guided gateway with California already selected.
Open guided request →COMPLETE THE RECORD
Close an evidence gap.
Public-record responses can be ingested back into the evidence graph and improve the published record.
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Economic-development education
Government decisions shape communities.
Public economic information can sit beside the government decisions and records that help explain it.
Jobs & Workforce
Employment, wages, labor force and workforce-development context.
Housing
Supply, affordability, development and public policy affecting communities.
Infrastructure
Transportation, utilities and public capital projects supporting communities.
Public Investment
Publicly documented incentives, grants, agreements and project outcomes.
Nonpartisan voter education
Election information should be easier to understand.
Comparable candidate pages, office explainers, public forums and official election resources — without endorsements.
VOTER GUIDE
Understand the office.
Explain what an office does before presenting comparable candidate information.
CANDIDATES
Comparable profiles.
Use the same structure and sourcing rules across candidates in the same contest.
PUBLIC FORUMS
Questions in public.
Archive questions, responses and source material with context attached.
OFFICIAL RESOURCES
Verify the basics.
Keep the official election authority directly accessible.
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