The lag on each feed
Nothing here is live in the sense of instant. Each source publishes on its own rhythm, and a report is only ever as current as the slowest thing in it:
- Police incidents — about a day behind. The current records system was publishing through yesterday when we last checked.
- 311 cases — about a day behind.
- Building violations — about thirteen days behind.
- Building permits — about twenty days behind.
The seam in the crime archive
Cleveland changed police records systems. The old one stops on 11 November 2025; the current one runs from there to today. Both are published, and together they give roughly a decade — but they use different category vocabularies, so a ten-year trend in one category is not one series. Where a count crosses the seam, the report says so.
What the city does not split
The trades are categories on one feed. Cleveland files “Building Permits” and labels each Electrical, Plumbing, HVAC and Refrigeration or Elevator, with residential and commercial variants, so the report reads the trades on a parcel from those categories and the Trade plan carries electrical, plumbing and HVAC lists. What the city does not publish is a sprinkler or fire-suppression permit type of its own.
What we refuse to publish
Cuyahoga County publishes owner names, grantor and grantee on its parcel and sales layers. We read those layers for parcel facts and sale amounts and exclude the owner fields deliberately, in Cleveland as everywhere. This service describes a place, never a person.
There are no scores, grades or rankings either — no safety rating, no neighbourhood letter. Those are the classic proxies for what fair-housing law protects, and this product refuses them by design in every city.
What a filing is and is not
Everything here is a record that somebody filed on a date. A violation is an inspector's finding, not a court's. A 311 case is a resident's report, not a fact. A permit is a declared intention, and a job value on it is what the applicant wrote down. The report tells you what was filed; what it means is yours.