Civic Stream LLC
Government transparency, built for the public.
Civic Stream LLC builds infrastructure for public access to government. CivicStream.tv aggregates and broadcasts more than 200 official government livestreams alongside a comprehensive structured database of politicians, elections, and legislation across the United States.
We exist because public proceedings are public in name only. Streams sit behind agency-by-agency portals, bill text lives in legacy systems, and comparable consumer-grade tools are paywalled or limited to a single branch of government. We are building the open layer that ties it all together.
Live
United States Capitol — Live Camera
CivicStream.tv — Live Broadcast
200+
Government Streams Indexed
24/7
Live Broadcasting
50
States in Coverage Scope
3+
Levels of Government
The Problem
Public access to government is fragmented by design.
The information that governs everyday life is technically public, but the infrastructure around it has not kept up with how people actually consume information today.
01
Streams are scattered.
Federal hearings, statehouse floor sessions, city councils, and county boards each publish their own video feeds on their own websites. There is no consumer-facing index that lets a citizen watch them all in one place.
02
Data is locked in legacy systems.
Bills, votes, sponsorships, and committee assignments are tracked in decades-old state and federal systems with inconsistent formats. There is no unified national schema for American political activity.
03
Tools that exist are paywalled.
The companies that have solved parts of this problem — FiscalNote, Quorum, Bloomberg Government — built enterprise products priced for lobbyists and corporate affairs teams, not the general public.
04
Coverage drops below the federal level.
C-SPAN covers Congress. Almost nobody systematically broadcasts state legislatures, county commissions, school boards, or municipal meetings — where the majority of policy actually happens.
The Platform
One platform. Live video and structured data.
CivicStream.tv answers two questions at once: what is happening in government right now, and who, where, and on what record. Live broadcasting and a structured political database operate as two halves of the same product.
Live Broadcasting
civicstream.tv / streams
CivicStream.tv aggregates official government livestreams and makes them easy to watch. The platform centralizes public proceedings that are otherwise scattered across dozens of government websites, each with its own video player, schedule, and archive system.
More than 200 public government livestreams across federal, state, and local institutions are curated, verified, and routed through a single viewing interface with no subscription, no login wall, and no advertising preroll on live feeds.
- 200+ government livestreams monitored
- 24/7 congressional broadcasting
- Manually verified official source feeds
- Public access without subscriptions
- Centralized viewing of government proceedings
Civic Database
civicstream.tv / bills
A large structured database of American political information sits alongside the video layer. It catalogs politicians, elections, legislation, and public offices into a single searchable system tied directly to the live feeds where that activity is taking place.
The dataset is designed so that a viewer watching a hearing can move directly into the legislative record for the bill being discussed, the politician at the microphone, or the office they hold.
- Nationwide politician database
- Election indexing across the United States
- Legislation and bill tracking
- Integrated government livestream access
Competitive Landscape
How Civic Stream compares.
Several organizations have solved parts of the civic transparency problem. None of them have unified live government broadcasting with a structured national political database, available to the public for free.
Coverage
From the Capitol to the county courthouse.
Civic Stream is built to cover all three levels of American government. The platform expands continuously as new official streams come online.
Federal
Congress, agencies, and the Capitol.
Live coverage of U.S. House and Senate floor sessions, congressional committee hearings, federal press briefings, and Capitol-area institutional cameras. Continuous 24/7 broadcast of available federal feeds.
State
All 50 statehouses, in scope.
Indexed state legislature floor sessions, state committee hearings, and governor press conferences across the country. State coverage is the largest active growth area on the platform.
Local
City councils and county boards.
Municipal and county-level meeting feeds are being progressively added to the index, prioritizing major metro areas and county seats. Local government is where most policy that affects daily life is actually made.
How It Works
Curation, not crawling.
Civic Stream does not scrape the open internet for government video. Every stream on the platform is sourced directly from its official publisher, verified by a person, and cleaned up so the feed you see is always the correct one.
Step 01
Sourcing
Streams come from official government publishers — chamber clerks, legislative broadcast offices, city clerks, and agency press offices. We do not republish unofficial mirrors or third-party uploads.
Step 02
Verification
Each feed is checked by hand. We confirm the chamber, body, and jurisdiction it actually shows, then label it correctly. The stream behind a "U.S. Senate Floor" tile is the U.S. Senate floor — not a similar-looking feed from a different room.
Step 03
Cleanup
Many official feeds change endpoints, switch providers, or break during recess. We monitor those changes and update the underlying source so the public-facing tile keeps pointing at the right feed even when the government's own URL shifts underneath it.
Step 04
Delivery
Streams are served through a unified player optimized for low-latency HLS playback, with mobile, desktop, and embedded surfaces all backed by the same verified metadata layer.
Civic Data Infrastructure
Structured political data is extremely valuable.
The Civic Stream platform is not just a broadcasting system. It is also building one of the most comprehensive structured datasets of American political activity.
Our infrastructure organizes information on politicians, elections, legislation, and government proceedings into a single unified system. This type of structured political data has significant long-term value for media organizations, research institutions, civic technology companies, and AI systems that increasingly need authoritative, machine-readable sources for government information.
As government activity continues to move online, platforms capable of organizing and indexing this information will become increasingly important pieces of public infrastructure. We believe this layer should exist as a public utility, not as an enterprise SaaS product accessible only to lobbyists and corporate affairs departments.
By combining government livestream aggregation with structured political datasets, Civic Stream is building a foundation for the next generation of civic transparency tools.
Our Mission
Open government should be easy to access.
An informed citizenry is the only true repository of the public will.
Civic Stream was founded on a simple belief: citizens should be able to easily see their government in action, without paywalls, without professional subscriptions, and without having to navigate dozens of agency websites to find a single hearing.
Our systems monitor hundreds of government livestreams and present them through a single public interface.
By combining government broadcasting with structured political data, Civic Stream makes it easier to understand how government operates in real time and over the long arc of a session, a term, or a career.
Leadership
Founders
Civic Stream LLC was founded to build technology that expands public access to government information and proceedings.
Contact
Get in touch.
For questions about Civic Stream LLC, partnership inquiries, press requests, or feedback on the platform, reach out anytime.
Contact@civicstream.tv
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