Local leads for the areas you cover
Search by city, ZIP code, or address—or set a radius—and view the results in a feed or on a map.
Private beta for local reporters
Discover local stories. Create content that matters.
CivicClue gives local reporters one place to find story leads in local data and public information, review the available context and source material, track follow-ups, and decide what is worth reporting.
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Discover local story leads faster
Search public safety signals by ZIP code, location, incident type, and date.
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Understand what happened—and what happened next
Review event timelines, dispatch audio, public records, and related coverage.
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Stay on top of developing stories
Create alerts for the locations, topics, and names that matter to your coverage, so you can follow new leads as they emerge.
Apply for CivicClue access
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Built for local reporters, independent newsrooms, and local creators.
What you can do today
A practical workspace for finding and developing local story leads.
CivicClue brings search, maps, alerts, saved leads, and AI-assisted research together in one place, helping reporters and creators turn raw local information into leads they can investigate and follow.
Timelines, context, and source material
Open a lead to review event timelines, dispatch audio, public records, related coverage, and other available context.
Search incidents, people, and places
Use filters or AI Search to find incidents by keyword, location, person, category, or date range—and uncover related patterns.
Alerts for the areas you cover
Create alerts for the locations, topics, and names that matter to your coverage, and follow new leads as they emerge.
Save leads worth following
Keep promising leads in one place and return to events that may warrant follow-up coverage.
Verification built into the workflow
CivicClue keeps source review and verification reminders in the workflow, helping reporters and creators decide what to pursue and what to publish.
How it works
From signal to story angle.
Discover
Find a promising local lead
Start with a location, date range, topic, or AI Search question.
Investigate
Review the available context
Check event details, timelines, source material, and map context to understand what happened.
Track
Save leads or set alerts
Save promising leads and monitor new developments in the areas and topics you cover.
Create
Turn a lead into a story
Use what you’ve gathered to decide what to verify, who to contact, and how to tell the story.
More is coming
More tools for local reporting are on the way.
We’re exploring new ways to surface leads from municipal records and other civic data, along with deeper trend analysis, reporting tools, follow-up monitoring, and safer newsroom collaboration. If there’s a workflow problem or data gap you’d like us to tackle, we’d love to hear from you.
Tell us what you’d like to seeTrend insights
Spot unusual spikes, recurring patterns, geographic hotspots, and time-of-day trends.
Reporting tools
Turn saved leads into story briefs, follow-up checklists, and reporting outlines.
Local story radar
Surface new story ideas from public meetings, court records, schools, permits, budgets, and other civic data.
Newsroom collaboration
Add editorial review, source checks, and simple collaboration tools for small reporting teams.