What The Citizen Audit Is — And What It Is Not

The purpose is simple: take public records, organize them into readable audits, identify what the records support, and make the limits visible when the evidence stops.

This site is not pro-government. It is not anti-government. It is pro-record, pro-correction, and pro-citizen. That distinction matters. A serious audit should be willing to confirm a government claim when the documents support it and reject a popular accusation when the documents do not.

The project is also not built around one report. Each audit stands as its own publication with its own claims, sources, methodology notes, open questions, and corrections. Articles exist to explain the findings in ordinary language, but the source trail remains the authority.

What readers should expect

• Claims should be traceable to records.
• Assumptions should be disclosed.
• Unknowns should remain visible.
• Corrections should be public.
• Audits should be readable by ordinary citizens, not only specialists.

What readers should not expect

The Citizen Audit should not be used as a shortcut for outrage. The point is not to make every issue simpler than it is. The point is to make complicated public records understandable without stripping away the limits that make the conclusion honest.

When the record proves something, the site should say so. When the record does not prove something, the site should say that too.