Indy AI Research Docs
Preliminary research on how local government spends money and makes decisions, pulled from the city's own budget books, board packets and news coverage. Built with AI to get public information into a form people can actually read. Treat everything here as a first draft.
Indianapolis Budget Explorer
Nine years of city-county spending, revenue by source, and a clickable breakdown of all 35 departments in the $1.898B 2027 proposed budget: where each one's money comes from and what it pays for.
Open the explorer →Flock and License Plate Reader Timeline
Every IMPD license plate reader approval in the public record since 2021, the money involved, the open questions, and template public records requests anyone can send.
Read the timeline →How Cities Dropped Flock
Campaigns that ended Flock contracts, how they won, and what they didn't win.
See the campaigns →How these are made
Public sources only
Budget books, board meeting packets, city web pages and published news. Every page links to what it used.
Drafted with AI
An AI assistant (Claude) pulled the numbers from source PDFs, wrote the summaries and built the pages. Totals were cross-checked against the documents' own summary tables.
Not verified line by line
Descriptions and interpretations can be wrong. Where something is uncertain, the page says so. Check the source before citing anything.