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Actually, this title doesn't do the service justice -- it yields detail clear down to local offices and gives a detail '+' link for each to get details like con
by DrScump 10y ago
Actually, this title doesn't do the service justice -- it yields detail clear down to local offices and gives a detail '+' link for each to get details like contact information.
For example, this is what is returned for a given, random Sunnyvale, CA address; the lone change I would suggest is to have the county and then city offices listed last to maintain a sequence of decreasing granularity. Note that Sunnyvale is an example of at-large city council representation, so all are listed. Very nicely done!
Barack Obama President of the United States
Joseph R. Biden Vice-President of the United States
Michael M. Honda United States House of Representatives CA-17
Dianne Feinstein United States Senate
Barbara Boxer United States Senate
Edmund G. Brown Jr. Governor
Gavin Newsom Lieutenant Governor
Laurie Smith Sheriff
Lawrence E. Stone Assessor
Jeffrey Rosen District Attorney
Gustav Larsson City Council Member Seat 1
Glenn Hendricks City Council Member Seat 2
David Whittum City Council Member Seat 4
Pat Meyering City Council Member Seat 5
Jim Davis City Council Member Seat 6
Tara Martin-Milius City Council Member Seat 7
Jim Griffith Mayor and City Council Member Seat 3
John Chiang State Treasurer
Kamala D. Harris Attorney General
Betty T. Yee State Controller
Alex Padilla Secretary of State
Dave Jones Insurance Commissioner
Tom Torlakson State Superintendent of Public Instruction
- saurik 10y ago> it yields detail clear down to local offices It has city councils, but it doesn't have any local districts. In Sunnyvale, you are also being represented on at least the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District[1], the El Camino Health Care District[2], and the Santa Clara Valley Water District[3]. If you are curious how I figured this out, I went to the Santa Clara County Local Agency Formation website, which has an interactive mapping tool[4]. [1] http://www.openspace.org/about-us/election-information http://www.openspace.org/about-us/election-information [2] https://www.elcaminohealthcaredistrict.org/governance https://www.elcaminohealthcaredistrict.org/governance [3] http://www.valleywater.org/About/BoardOfDirectors.aspx http://www.valleywater.org/About/BoardOfDirectors.aspx [4] http://www.santaclaralafco.org/maps http://www.santaclaralafco.org/maps
- mandelbulb 10y agoWhy do so much work and post on HN instead of sending them a quick mail?
- shardo 10y agoTo be fair, chances are the website makers are going to go through every single Hacker news comment anyway.
- epoch_100 10y agoWe've been lurking...
- epoch_100 10y agoOur address is secure@politiwatch.org
- saurik 10y agoI don't think the people who make this website don't know this is a limitation, and I especially don't think that they have some database they are hand editing with new information I might provide on this thread: my comment and information (which also wasn't "so much work": it took a few minutes; I attended a couple years of meetings of the Santa Barbara LAFCO and so I know how this stuff all works) is only relevant in the context of this thread as a reply to the comment making the website sound more local than it really is?
- r0m4n0 10y agoJust as a heads up to people using this (and the creators), it also appears to be missing the thousands of elected school board members that make decisions for school districts
- DrScump 10y agoHaving an exhaustively thorough scope of all elective offices, rather than the most-sought subset, magnifies the task tenfold or more, especially if that data isn't already available to them in their existing sources. Such critiques strike me as unduly harsh.
- ourmandave 10y agoIf I'm ever pulled over in Sunnyvale (or anywhere) I can do a quick search with this site and then yell at the cop, "I pay your boss, Laurie Smith's salary!" Then it's just a quick jump over to the ACLU's Know Your Rights page... https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights
- pkaeding 10y agoGood luck with that! The side of the road is no place for yelling at or threatening cops.
- akiselev 10y agoYeah that would probably not go well at all. However, there's no reason you can't have a polite conversation where you imply you know the sheriff personally. You can ask something like "How is Laurie doing?" and then something relevant like "My sister used to hang out with her in San Jose State" and "How are those new jail cameras working out? I heard she bought them herself! Wow!" just based off of Wikipedia [1] and some news articles [2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurie_Smith https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurie_Smith [2] http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2016/03/02/santa-clara-county-sheriff-uses-her-own-money-to-buy-jail-cameras/ http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2016/03/02/santa-clara-coun...
- pkaeding 10y agoYeah, that might work, as a social engineering tactic to get out of a ticket.
- DrScump 10y agoUh, only unincorporated areas of Santa Clara County (and those few cities who subcontract law enforcement to the county, like Cupertino) fall under Smith's direct purview. Like most cities, Sunnyvale has its own P.D. (Department of Public Safety, in Sunnyvale's case -- combined Police and Fire). That said, the jurisdiction of any given sworn law enforcement officer in CA is statewide, so any officer could pull you over regardless of what city you're in, theoretically.
- SOLAR_FIELDS 10y agoThe info seems a bit out of date - Jim Griffith is no longer mayor and hasn't been so for about a year: http://sunnyvale.ca.gov/CityGovernment/CityCouncil/Councilmembers.aspx http://sunnyvale.ca.gov/CityGovernment/CityCouncil/Councilme...