Methodology
How OpenTexas sources, transcribes, enriches, and indexes public meeting records.
What we hold for Dallas
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
- 455
- Bodies covered
- 61
- Earliest record
- January 5, 2026
- Latest meeting
- October 29, 2026
Minutes are published on the body's own schedule, often weeks after the meeting.
64 published motions. A decision can only be extracted where minutes exist.
Next scheduled meeting on record: November 2, 2026.
Known source problems
- October 29, 2026 · Citizen Homelessness Commission — Swagit: meeting not archived (no recording available)
- October 29, 2026 · Dallas Housing Acquisition and Development Corporation — Swagit: meeting not archived (no recording available)
- October 27, 2026 · Municipal Library Board — No content available for enrichment (empty transcript + no agenda/minutes)
- October 27, 2026 · Dallas Public Facility Corporation — No content available for enrichment (empty transcript + no agenda/minutes)
- October 27, 2026 · Commission on Disabilities — No content available for enrichment (empty transcript + no agenda/minutes)
- October 26, 2026 · Youth Commission — Swagit: meeting not archived (no recording available)
- October 26, 2026 · Committee on Finance — No content available for enrichment (empty transcript + no agenda/minutes)
- October 26, 2026 · South Dallas/Fair Park Opportunity Fund Board — No content available for enrichment (empty transcript + no agenda/minutes)
- October 23, 2026 · Animal Advisory Commission — No content available for enrichment (empty transcript + no agenda/minutes)
- October 22, 2026 · Park and Recreation Board — No content available for enrichment (empty transcript + no agenda/minutes)
Bodies covered (61)
Ad Hoc Committee on Administrative Affairs · Ad Hoc Committee on General Investigating and Ethics · Ad Hoc Committee on Legislative Affairs · Ad Hoc Committee on Professional Sports Recruitment and Retention · Ad Hoc Judicial Nominating Committee · Animal Advisory Commission · Arts and Culture Advisory Commission · Board of Adjustment Full Board Meeting · Board of Adjustment, Panel A · Board of Adjustment, Panel B · Board of Adjustment, Panel C · Briefing · Building Inspection Advisory Examining Appeals Boards · Building Inspection Advisory, Examining & Appeals Boards · Citizen Homelessness Commission · City Auditor Nominating Commission · City Council · City Plan Commission · Civil Service Board · College Advisory Commission · Commission on Disabilities · Committee on Finance · Committee on Government Efficiency · Community Development Commission · Community Police Oversight Board · Dallas Housing Acquisition and Development Corporation · Dallas Housing Finance Corporation · Dallas Public Facility Corporation · Economic Development Committee · Environmental Commission · Housing and Homelessness Solutions Committee · Joint Meeting of Reinvestment Zone Number Five (City Center) and Reinvestment Zone Number Eleven (Downtown Connection) Development Authority Board of Directors · Joint Meeting of the Ad Hoc Committee on Pensions and the Finance Committee · Judicial Nominating Commission · Landmark Commission · Landmark Commission. · Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center Board · Municipal Library Board · Park and Recreation Board · Parks, Trails, and the Environment Committee · Public Safety Committee · Quality of Life, Arts, and Culture Committee · Reinvestment Zone (RZ03) Three Board (Oak Cliff Gateway) · Reinvestment Zone (RZ06) Six Board (Farmers Market) · Reinvestment Zone (RZ08) Eight Board (Design District) · Reinvestment Zone (RZ09) Nine Board (Vickery Meadow) · Reinvestment Zone (RZ12) Twelve Board (Deep Ellum) · Reinvestment Zone (RZ14) Fourteen Board (Skillman Corridor) · Reinvestment Zone (RZ15) Fifteen Board (Fort Worth Avenue) · Reinvestment Zone (RZ17) Seventeen Board (TOD) · Reinvestment Zone (RZ18) Eighteen Board (Maple/Mockingbird) · Reinvestment Zone (RZ20) Twenty Board (Mall Area Redevelopment) · Senior Affairs Commission · South Dallas/Fair Park Opportunity Fund Board · Special Called Joint Meeting of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and the Dallas Area Rapid Transit Board · Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone Number Twelve (Deep Ellum) and Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone Number Thirteen (Grand Park South) · Transportation and Infrastructure Committee · Trinity River Corridor Local Government Corporation · Urban Design Peer Review Panel (UDPRP) · Veteran Affairs Commission · Youth Commission
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.