A Texas public-records analytics firm · based in North Texas
We’re not the government, and we’re not a newsroom — we’re your agent. With the community’s help, LION drafts public-records requests and aggregates thousands of them across Texas to force local government into the open. Every record is verified against its source and published — open and free to the public. It starts with one request: yours →
You already paid for these records — with your taxes. Put your name on a public-records request and we file it for your town. It costs nothing but your voice.
Our method, in the open: we file · we verify against source · we publish, dated and cited.
Browse the Open Records board →What we are · how we operate
Public records don’t request themselves. LION turns scattered, one-off requests into one coordinated machine — run for the public, funded by the public.
What we cover
Tap a domain to see what it means. Library records are live today — the rest are being built.
Fund the operation
A statewide records operation has real costs — staff, servers and database management, the custom AI tooling that reads and cross-checks every record, software, and the hours to verify each one against its source. It doesn’t run on goodwill alone. Two ways to sponsor it: sponsor your district by the share, or sponsor a single campus. You’re backing the records existing — every dollar goes straight to obtaining, verifying, and publishing them.
Sponsor your district by the share.
Every district’s goal is set by its size — 15¢ a student. You buy shares toward it, in whatever quantity you like. Neighbors and businesses co-sponsor one district; fill the goal and it’s watched all of 2026–27. Give $10 or $10,000.
Sponsor one campus, on your own.
Want your school? $100 a year — under $2 a week — sponsor a single campus outright and keep it watched, solo. Recognition is your call: put your name on the school you back, or stay anonymous. Simple, personal, and it makes one campus feel yours.
Found the whole operation.
Sponsoring backs one district. Founding backs the machine itself — the statewide operation that files, verifies, and publishes the record for every Texas community. Founders can take standing recognition on the LION Founders wall — or give quietly. It’s always your choice.
Own a local business that backs the truth? Join our free Community Board →
The library, today
What these books contain, drawn from cited sources and shown most-concerning first. LION documents content; it does not rate or grade a book. You decide.
Open the full library database in its own tab ↗Community-driven
LION is built for the public and runs on what the public flags. If your school, city, or county is doing something that deserves a public-records request — or you want us watching a government we haven’t reached yet — tell us. We review every recommendation the community sends.
Built to a professional standard
LION was engineered in under 90 days into a full public-records operation: the scraping-and-monitoring pipeline that pulls the records, the databases that hold and cross-check them, this site that serves them to the public, and custom AI research tools built to match flagship models at the specific jobs this work demands. Not a hobby project — a purpose-built system with a real model behind it. And it’s crowdfunded: built and sustained by the public it serves, answerable to no government or corporation.