Coverage

What Lamppostcovers, and what it doesn't

One city so far: Louisville. That is the whole of it — not a launch region, not a pilot list. Everywhere else on this page is a gap, and the gaps are written down for the same reason the coverage is.

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Reading now in Louisville

We last read 37 datasets on Sep 6, 2026. We read them once a day, at 13:15 UTC. Everything below is as of then; nothing published since is here yet.

11 of 11 topics, 34 datasets, from 2 sources.

Building permits

Restaurant inspections

Property maintenance

Food service permits

Alcohol licenses

City services

Planning & zoning

Roadwork & closures

Public meetings

Crime

Metro Council

Where a line says how often a dataset updates, that was measured against the publisher's own metadata and its record of what it has actually published — Aug 14, 2026 and Jul 28, 2026 — and not promised to us. Nothing obliges a city to keep a schedule, and the dates beside each dataset are what would show it had stopped. A dataset with no such line is one nobody has measured; one whose line says we found no schedule is one somebody looked at and found none.

Read, but not a topic

Three datasets Lamppost reads in Louisville that are not in the list above, and could not be. They have no address and no date, so nothing can match them to a place you are watching.

We read them, and they back the people pages. You cannot subscribe to them, they will never appear in a digest, and they will never mail you. It is here because a dataset we read and do not list is a dataset this page is lying about.

Employee salaries — Louisville Metro / LOJIC

Updated weekly (measured Aug 14, 2026) · publisher last updated it Aug 30, 2026 · Lamppost last read it Aug 30, 2026

LOJIC LMPD Beats (boundary layer) — Louisville Metro / LOJIC

the publisher gives no edit date

LOJIC Urban Neighborhoods (boundary layer) — Louisville Metro / LOJIC

the publisher gives no edit date

Published nothing in 30 days

Of the 34 datasets above, 5 have published nothing in 30 days. In five cases the gap is past 60. Lamppost reads them on the same schedule as everything else on this page. What follows is the date of the newest record we hold from each, which is the part we can actually see — not a claim about what Louisville intends to do next.

LOJIC All Permits (Historical) — Building permits

Newest record Jun 19, 2022, 1540 days ago. Louisville Metro / LOJIC.

Metro 311 Service Requests 2022 — City services

Newest record Dec 31, 2022, 1345 days ago. Louisville Metro / LOJIC.

Metro 311 Service Requests 2023 — City services

Newest record Dec 31, 2023, 980 days ago. Louisville Metro / LOJIC.

LOJIC Planning Applications — Planning & zoning

Newest record May 23, 2026, 106 days ago. Louisville Metro / LOJIC.

Louisville Metro Demolitions 2021-Present — Property maintenance

Newest record Jun 25, 2026, 73 days ago. Louisville Metro / LOJIC.

If you are watching an address and expecting one of these, that is what you are actually getting. It is on this page for the same reason the coverage is.

Public meetings

Louisville runs its agendas and minutes on a system Lamppost can read, so meetings appear alongside the records.

What Lamppost cannot do, even here

Lamppost reads what a government publishes. It does not file open records requests, it does not scrape what was never released, and it does not know about anything a city keeps in a filing cabinet. If Louisville stops publishing a dataset, that topic goes quiet on this site and this page says so.

Coordinates come from the city's own data and are only as good as it is. Every record on Lamppost links to the official source; the source is the record, and we are a reader of it.

Everywhere else

Not covered. There is no waiting list of half-built cities and no quarter we are promising. What decides which town is next is two things: how many people ask for it, and whether that town publishes its records at all.

Ask us to read your town

Leave an address and a place. We write once, when Lamppostcan actually read that place's records — never before, and never about anything else. You'll get one email now asking whether you meant it; ignore that one and nothing happens.

We store the address and the place, and nothing else. Every one of those emails carries a link that deletes the row outright — you don't need an account to be forgotten. How we handle your data.

Already in Louisville? You want the daily digest, not this list.

If your town doesn't publish the data

Then nobody can read it — not Lamppost, not a journalist, not you. That is the harder half, and it is fixed at a council meeting rather than by us. Cities are not withholding this stuff; most of them have simply never been asked for it in a form they could act on.

We are writing a kit for exactly that conversation — what to ask for, who to ask, and what an open data portal costs a city. It is not finished, and we would rather hand you nothing than hand you a letter we drafted in a hurry for you to send under your own name. Put your town on the list above and it goes to you first.