# OpenPublica Muse connector

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## OpenPublica

Search US local government meetings, summaries, transcripts, and adopted plans.

- Record: https://musedirectory.ai/connector/openpublica
- Category: Research & Data
- Developer: OpenPublica (https://www.openpublica.com/api-docs)
- Muse status: Extra setup. Not in Muse's Connectors list yet. Muse can still use it: its page gives you a request to paste into Muse.
- Health: Working, 1613ms, checked 2026-09-28T09:15:59Z
- Endpoint: https://api.openpublica.com/mcp
- Auth: No account needed; Pricing: unknown
- Screening: Screened, no issues found (2026-09-24T17:30:54Z)
- Source: Found in the official MCP Registry (com.openpublica/civic-meetings) https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io/v0/servers?search=com.openpublica%2Fcivic-meetings

Connects to OpenPublica's database of US local government meetings. Muse can search meeting summaries by topic or keyword, retrieve full transcripts and quotes, find adopted plan documents, and compare decisions across multiple cities.

Example request: "Show me what my city council decided about short-term rental regulations in the last six months."

How to connect: Not in Muse's Connectors list yet, but Muse can still use it. Paste this into Muse: "Use OpenPublica to help me. It is a free service with an MCP server at https://api.openpublica.com/mcp. It does not need an API key. Ask me before you share anything with it." Muse asks before it shares anything with the app's site. Meta does not review apps used this way, so only use ones you trust. We tested this in the Muse app on September 24, 2026: Muse used an app's link directly this way and returned a live answer.

Tools:
- search_meetings_semantic: Search OpenPublica meeting summaries by meaning, exact terms, or both. The best default tool for "what has been said/decided about X" questions. Results carry a `relevance_score` (semantic, 0-1) and/or `keyword_score` (BM25) plus `highlights`, so you can triage matches by confide
- list_recent_meetings: Browse meetings newest-first, optionally filtered by government, type, topic, or date. Use this for "what are the most recent meetings" or to page through a government's history. For topical questions, prefer `search_meetings_semantic`. 
- get_meeting: Get a single meeting's full AI summary and topics. Set `include_transcript=true` to also retrieve the complete transcript text for direct quotation. Returns an error object if the meeting is not found. 
- search_meeting_transcript: Find exact quotes/passages inside one meeting's transcript. Use this to pull direct quotations without loading a whole (often very long) transcript: it fetches the transcript server-side, scans it, and returns only the matching passages with approximate `start`/`end` timecodes wh
- find_local_governments: Discover which governments OpenPublica tracks near a coordinate. Returns nearby governments with their `account_id`, which you can pass to the other tools to scope results to a specific city or board. Note OpenPublica only covers a limited set of US localities; an empty result me
- find_governments_by_name: Resolve a place *name* to the governments OpenPublica tracks there. Use this when you know a city/state name but not its coordinates — it returns matching governments with their `account_id` (prefix matches first), which you then pass to the search/list tools. Prefer this over `f
- find_governments_by_zip: Resolve a ZIP code to nearby tracked governments. Convenience wrapper: geocodes the ZIP, then finds the governments OpenPublica tracks nearest that point. Returns their `account_id`s plus the resolved location. An empty `governments` list means none are tracked near that ZIP yet.
- get_government_info: Get a tracked government's profile: name, location, and meeting categories.
- get_government_stats: Get meeting-activity stats for a government over a recent window. Returns total meeting count, a per-day activity map, and a breakdown of meeting categories — useful for "how active has X been lately?" questions. 
- discover_meeting_vocabulary: Discover the valid category and topic filter values before filtering a search. Meeting `category_tag`s are opaque UUIDs and topics have no fixed list, so you cannot guess them. Call this first to get the real values, then pass a returned `category_tag` (from `categories[].tags`) 
- list_government_documents: List a government's adopted plan and budget documents. Each entry carries `covers` — every general-plan element that document answers for. A city that publishes one bound general plan satisfies all eight with the same PDF, so do not conclude an element is unpublished because no e
- get_document: One document's metadata. Use read_document_pages to read it. If an `availability` key is present, read it before quoting figures: its `problems` are transcription-lint findings, most often a footnote marker that may have been merged into the number it annotates. No such key means
- read_document_pages: Read a page range of a document as markdown. Pages are transcribed from rendered pixels, so tables and scanned text come through as text. A page that could not be transcribed appears as a marked hole rather than being silently dropped — if you see one, say so instead of reading p
- search_documents: Search adopted plan and budget documents, returning page-cited excerpts. Each hit's `text` is a short passage around the match, not the full page — call read_document_pages with the hit's `first_page` to read it in context. Every hit carries `first_page`/`last_page` and `source_u
- get_coverage_overview: Get OpenPublica's overall coverage: total governments, states, and meetings indexed. DC is tracked but is not a state, so it is reported separately as `includes_dc` — read the pair as "N states and DC".

Screening checks:
- MCP handshake: pass (Answered in 601ms)
- Domain against threat feeds (Cloudflare security DNS): pass (api.openpublica.com, www.openpublica.com not flagged)
- Published packages against the OSV malicious-package database: n/a (No npm or PyPI package published)
- Hidden instructions or invisible characters in tool text: pass (15 tools read, nothing found)
- Inputs asking for passwords, card numbers or seed phrases: pass (None found)
- Domain and redirects: pass (No redirects off the domain)
- AI review of purpose and tool behavior: pass (No concerns)