WA Digital Democracy

Provenance

Sources

WA Digital Democracy is source-linked by design. Every public fact should trace back to an official feed, public record, document, video, transcript, or dataset. This page explains what powers the current public record and which source families are ready for future expansion.

Source families
18
In use
4
Recorded calls
15,925
Expansion clients
8

What “source-linked” means here

  • Official/public sources are fetched through clients that preserve raw responses.
  • Normalized facts point back to source records with URLs, timestamps, and content hashes.
  • Human-reviewed matches and inferred joins are labeled with confidence rather than presented as certainty.
  • Money, lobbying, and contract records are shown as context, not proof of causation.

Source families

Washington Legislative Web Services

active

Bill metadata, sponsors, status timeline, and official hearing references.

Official source →
System key
lws
Recorded calls
13,071
Latest fetch
Jun 2, 2026, 11:51 AM PDT
Endpoints used
  • LegislationService.GetHearings
  • LegislationService.GetLegislation
  • LegislationService.GetLegislationByYear
  • LegislationService.GetLegislativeStatusChangesByBillNumber
  • LegislationService.GetSponsors
  • SponsorService.GetHouseSponsors
  • SponsorService.GetSenateSponsors

Committee Sign In

active

Public testimony sign-ins, positions, organizations, and testified/registered-only flags.

Official source →
System key
csi
Recorded calls
1,376
Latest fetch
Jun 2, 2026, 11:51 AM PDT
Endpoints used
  • csi.GetAgendaItems
  • csi.GetMeetings
  • csi.GetOtherTestifiers
  • csi.chamber

TVW

active

Public legislative video metadata and watch links.

Official source →
System key
tvw
Recorded calls
554
Latest fetch
Jun 2, 2026, 11:51 AM PDT
Endpoints used
  • wp.v2.invintus_video.list
  • wp.v2.invintus_video.search_event

Invintus

active

TVW event details and caption/VTT transcript files.

Limitation: Requires the local Invintus embedder key for event-detail calls.

Official source →
System key
invintus
Recorded calls
924
Latest fetch
Jun 2, 2026, 11:51 AM PDT
Endpoints used
  • Event.getDetailed
  • captionPath

PDC / data.wa.gov

active

PDC lobbyist-employer records used to verify organization matches.

Limitation: Socrata app token is optional; leave blank unless broader ingestion hits throttling.

Official source →
System key
pdc_socrata
Recorded calls
0

Committee Schedules

partial

Supplemental legislative agenda/video lookup when Committee Schedules pages are needed directly.

Limitation: Date-filtered search requires CSRF/session capture; routine hearing discovery currently uses LWS, CSI, and TVW instead.

Official source →
System key
committee_schedules
Recorded calls
0

DataWA / DES contracts

partial

State agency contracts, IT contracts, master-contract sales, and WEBS vendor/procurement rows.

Limitation: Operator-driven ingest commands exist; these rows are not part of the daily legislative pipeline yet.

Official source →
System key
datawa_socrata
Recorded calls
0

Washington State Auditor

planned

Audit/report metadata, findings, and accountability context.

Official source →
System key
sao_reportsearch
Recorded calls
0

Seattle City Auditor

planned

Structured audit recommendations and follow-up status.

Official source →
System key
seattle_auditor
Recorded calls
0

Seattle Open Data

partial

Seattle operating-budget rows, with room for permits, service requests, land use, and housing overlays.

Limitation: Only the operating-budget surface has a current ingest command.

Official source →
System key
seattle_socrata
Recorded calls
0

King County Open Data

planned

Parcels, property, elections, health, transit, and public-safety overlays.

Official source →
System key
kingcounty_socrata
Recorded calls
0

Census ACS

planned

Demographic and geography context for districts, issues, and neighborhoods.

Official source →
System key
census
Recorded calls
0

USAspending

partial

Federal award-search rows for awards performed in Washington.

Limitation: Current ingest is a bounded award-search page; deeper pagination, subawards, and entity joins are follow-up work.

Official source →
System key
usaspending
Recorded calls
0

Fiscal.wa.gov

partial

Open Checkbook vendor-payment rows for state fiscal spending context.

Limitation: Current ingest covers the vendor-payment workbook, not full operating/capital/transportation budget surfaces.

Official source →
System key
fiscal_wa
Recorded calls
0

OpenFEMA

planned

Disaster declarations, assistance, mitigation, and hazard context.

Official source →
System key
openfema
Recorded calls
0

BLS

planned

Labor-market, wage, employment, unemployment, and economic context.

Official source →
System key
bls
Recorded calls
0

HUD

planned

Housing affordability, subsidized housing, FMR, CHAS, and HUD overlays.

Official source →
System key
hud
Recorded calls
0

EPA ECHO / EJScreen

planned

Environmental compliance, enforcement, facilities, and environmental-justice context.

Official source →
System key
epa
Recorded calls
0