A water system under federal oversight, and a contracting record that is public
Jackson's water system has been under federal oversight, which produced something unusual: a court-supervised paper trail running alongside the City's own procurement. The Mississippi Public Records Act gives a resident seven working days and a free appeal to the Ethics Commission — the strongest citizen remedy of the three states this Foundation works in, and almost nobody uses it.
Water system contracts and change orders, the interim manager's filed reports, and Council appropriations tied to each.
This chapter is new, and says so
Nothing on this site is an allegation. What is here on day one is the infrastructure a resident needs in order to ask: the statute, the deadline, the custodian, the meeting archive, and every official portal in one place. The findings come from the records, and the records have to be asked for first.
City Desk
14 verified links to Jackson, Hinds County and Mississippi government — agendas, budgets, records portals and oversight bodies. Every one was fetched and checked on 2026-07-26, not copied from a search result.
File under the Mississippi Public Records Act
Miss. Code Ann. § 25-61-1 et seq.. The city has seven (7) working days to respond. We generate the letter, send it, and track the clock.
Watch the meetings
Jackson publishes its meetings through the city's own site. We index them so “what happened on the 6th” is one click rather than a scroll through an unlabelled playlist.
What is stale
A public dashboard of when each automated pull last succeeded. If the archive is behind, this page says so rather than letting the site quietly rot.
Why Jackson
Jackson's water system has been under federal oversight, which produced something unusual: a court-supervised paper trail running alongside the City's own procurement. The Mississippi Public Records Act gives a resident seven working days and a free appeal to the Ethics Commission — the strongest citizen remedy of the three states this Foundation works in, and almost nobody uses it.
The Move Weight Foundation's first chapter is a town of thirteen thousand people in Ottawa County, Oklahoma, and it now holds 522 archived meetings with machine transcripts. The second is San Angelo, Texas. The third is Southaven, Mississippi, where the City's own released documents show an ad valorem agreement abating two thirds of property tax on a recital of twenty new jobs. None of those started with a tip. They started with somebody reading the agenda.
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