Methodology
How OpenTexas sources, transcribes, enriches, and indexes public meeting records.
What we hold for Fort Worth
These are coverage figures — how much of the public record we have published. They are not an accuracy measure, and we do not currently publish one.
- Meetings
- 178
- Bodies covered
- 59
- Earliest record
- January 6, 2026
- Latest meeting
- October 29, 2026
Minutes are published on the body's own schedule, often weeks after the meeting.
249 published motions. A decision can only be extracted where minutes exist.
Next scheduled meeting on record: November 17, 2026.
Known source problems
- October 20, 2026 · Executive Session — No recording found within the 7-day media watch
Bodies covered (59)
2026 Bond & Charter Public Education Meeting · Audit Committee · Audit and Finance Committee · Black History Month Program · Board of Adjustment · Budget Work Session · Budget Work Session and Crime Control and Prevention District · Building Standards Commission · CITY COUNCIL · CITY COUNCIL - DELAYED START DUE TO WEATHER EMERGENCY · CITY COUNCIL - SPECIAL CALLED CITY COUNCIL MEETING – ELECTION CANVASS · CITY COUNCIL - SPECIAL CALLED COUNCIL MEETING · CITY COUNCIL WORKSESSION · CITY COUNCIL WORKSESSION - BUDGET WORK SESSION ON THE FY2027 BUDGET · CITY COUNCIL WORKSESSION - BUDGET WORK SESSION ON THE FY2027 BUDGET IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE 10:00 A.M. CCPD MEETING · CITY COUNCIL WORKSESSION - BUDGET WORK SESSION ON THE FY2027 BUDGET IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE 2:00 P.M. COUNCIL WORK SESSION · CITY COUNCIL WORKSESSION - DELAYED START DUE TO WEATHER EMERGENCY · CITY COUNCIL WORKSESSION - IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING EXECUTIVE SESSION · CITY COUNCIL WORKSESSION - SPECIAL CALLED MEETING CITY COUNCIL WORKSHOP ON THE 2026 BOND PROGRAM · Central City Local Government Corporation · City Council · City Council Meeting · City Council Work Session · City Plan Commission · Cold Weather Update Press Conference · Community Development Committee · Crime Control and Prevention District · District 11 FY2027 Budget Meeting · District 2 FY2027 Budget Meeting · District 4 FY2027 Budget Meeting · District 5 FY2027 Budget Meeting · District 6 FY2027 Budget Meeting · District 7 FY2027 Budget Meeting · District 8 FY2027 Budget Meeting · District 9 Budget Meeting · Executive Session · Floodplain Management Plan Public Meeting · Fort Worth Business Plan Competition Finals · Fort Worth Housing Finance Corporation · Fort Worth Housing Finance Corporation Immediately following the City Council Meeting · Fort Worth Local Development Corporation · Fort Worth Local Development Corporation and Fort Worth Housing Finance Corporation · Historic & Cultural Landmarks Commission · Historic and Cultural Landmark Commission · Infrastructure & Growth Committee · Infrastructure and Growth Committee · Joint Fort Worth City Council/Fort Worth Employees' Retirement Fund Board · Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs Committee · Northwest Fort Worth Town Hall · Press Conference: Illegal Gun Fire Education Campaign · Property Management & Environmental Services Committee · Property Management and Environmental Services Committee · Public Safety Committee · Research and Innovation Local Government Corporation · Special Called Budget Work Session · The Mayor's Neighborhood Awards · Work Session · ZONING COMMISSION · test test
Where the records come from
We pull official meeting videos from city platforms — Granicus, CivicPlus, PrimeGov, Swagit, and YouTube — once per city per day. Agendas come from the city's public agenda system. Nothing is republished without an official source.
How transcription works
Every meeting is transcribed with word-level timestamps, then enriched with AI to extract decisions, agenda items, public comments, and civic issues. Transcripts may contain errors; video and original audio remain the authoritative source.
How search works
Search is hybrid — keyword matching plus vector similarity — inside Meilisearch. Results are real records (meetings, agenda items, dev applications). The summaries on each result card were produced during enrichment and are reviewed periodically. Written answers come only from the assistant, described next.
How the assistant answers questions
The “Ask about” assistant answers plain-English questions from the same records search uses: agendas, minutes, transcripts, recorded decisions and development applications. It does not answer from general knowledge about your city. It is free with a sign-in.
Every statement in an answer links to the meeting it came from, so you can open the agenda, minutes or the moment in the video and check it yourself. When the records do not cover a question, it says so instead of guessing.
It keeps a recommendation separate from a decision. A planning commission that votes to recommend denial has not denied anything; the council decides next, and the answer says which body acted and which body acts next.
Known limits. Until a body approves its minutes, a vote may be known only from the recording; answers label those votes as recording-based. Not every meeting has a transcript or minutes yet, and coverage differs by city (see the coverage figures at the top of this page). Like the summaries, answers can contain errors.
Before a change to the assistant ships, we rerun a fixed set of real residents' questions with checked answers and compare the results. Passing that set does not guarantee every answer is right, which is why every answer shows its sources.
AI limitations
AI summaries can contain errors. Always verify legal actions, vote counts, and named-person attributions against the official video, transcript, and minutes. Where records are incomplete, we mark the gap rather than guess.
Corrections
Spotted a problem? Email corrections@opencityrecord.org with a link to the page and a description of the issue. We review every correction and update the affected record.