Contribute

Seen a story we're missing — a wrongful stop, a settlement, a cancelled contract, an audit, a breach? Send it. Every entry on this site started as a link somebody found.

Two ways in

Open a GitHub issue Email [email protected]

The GitHub issue template asks for the same fields an entry needs, so it's the fastest route to publication. Email is fine too — especially if you'd rather not have your name on a public issue. Either way we do the checking; you don't need to write the entry.

What a good submission includes

Sources with URLs — the page you actually read, not a summary of it. Primary documents (court filings, council minutes, audits, contracts) and local reporting beat aggregators. Two independent sources are better than one.
The event date — when the stop, filing, vote or settlement happened, not when it was reported. If only a month is known, say so.
Where — city and state, or "statewide" / "federal".
The dollar figure, if a source prints one — and who paid: the city, the county, the state, or the vendor. That distinction decides whether it counts toward THE TAB.
The technology and vendor, when named.
Anything a vendor or agency said in response, with its source.

What we won't publish

Claims without a source, or with a source we can't reach.
Private individuals' names or home addresses, in any form. Named plaintiffs in public filings are the only exception.
Speculation about motive, or anything where a source hedges and we'd have to un-hedge it.
Entries about a product's marketing alone — there has to be an event.

Corrections

Wrong figure, wrong date, missing context, a source that has since been updated? Email a correction with the source and we'll fix the entry and mark it updated. Details of the policy are on the About page.

Working on the code

The site is a static Astro build; entries are Markdown files with a strict frontmatter schema. docs/CONTRIBUTING.md and docs/CONTENT-SPEC.md in the repository cover the schema, the tag vocabularies and the validator. Pull requests that add entries are welcome; add them as status: draft and the verification pipeline (docs/AUTOPILOT.md) fetches the sources and decides whether they publish — a PR never sets published directly.