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Your reports are part of our methodology.

Real Record publishes property-tax records, council meeting briefings, county affordability dashboards, and the underlying data that shapes Washington State housing policy. The records come from county assessors, city budget books, council meeting recordings, federal data feeds, and the state legislative database — many of which have their own gaps, lags, and edge cases. We do our best to catch and document those, but a civic data archive is only as honest as its corrections.

When you flag a wrong number, a stale dataset, a broken link, a misattributed quote, or a missing meeting, you're doing the public audit that makes our publishing trustworthy. We treat every report as a question we should be able to answer in writing — what was the source, when was it pulled, why did it disagree with the truth on the ground, and what's the fix.

The reports we find most useful

• Data errors — a property-tax record that disagrees with the actual bill, a county affordability stat that doesn't match the underlying ACS table, a levy total that misses a parcel.
• Missing meetings or briefings — a council meeting that should be in the archive but isn't, or a briefing that's missing decisions or quotes you can verify from the video.
• Attribution problems — quotes attributed to the wrong speaker, vote counts that don't match the official record, or a topic tag that doesn't fit the conversation.
• Broken links or 404 pages — especially internal navigation, sitemap entries, or any URL we've published in a briefing or email.
• Document & record gaps — a comprehensive-plan chapter we haven't ingested, a fund or levy that should have a detail page, a city we don't yet cover.

Real Record is operated by Real Housing Reform Initiative, a Washington State 501(c)(3) nonprofit (EIN 39-4829821). All corrections are logged in our methodology notes and reflected in the next data refresh. We don't track who submitted a report; we just fix the record.