Meeting transcript archives — August 2026

Plain-text transcripts of Connecticut municipal meetings — the primary source
behind every report in this repository. One .zip per town, one text file per
meeting, plus a MANIFEST.txt in each archive stating its own coverage.

97 towns · 34,592 meeting transcripts · 727 MB

Filenames are stable (<town>-meeting-transcripts.zip) and are replaced in
place as each town's backlog fills, so a link to one keeps working and keeps
returning the current archive. This release tag is the dated snapshot.

Redaction

Connecticut public comment opens with a ritual: the speaker gives their name,
then their home address, for the record.

The names are as spoken. 43,081 home addresses have been replaced with
[address redacted].

Addressing a public body is a public, accountable act, and stripping names
would gut the record. A home address is different. Individually those addresses
are public and sit on the town's own video, but these archives are a different
artifact from a four-hour recording nobody watches: searchable, sortable and
downloadable in bulk. Pooling name-and-home-address pairs at this scale is
the same aggregation this project objects to when a camera vendor builds it.
Some of the speakers are children.

Addresses being discussed rather than lived at — where a camera sits, which
property is before the commission — are untouched, because that is the evidence.
So is "I live in West Hartford", which is how a speaker establishes standing.

The town's own recording remains the unredacted record of the same meeting.

Coverage

Coverage is partial and varies enormously by town. The percentage below is
the share of that town's known meeting videos that have actually been
transcribed; meetings never recorded or never captioned are in neither number.
A topic's absence from a town's transcripts is not evidence the town has not
discussed it.

These are machine transcriptions of automatic captions, not official minutes.
They contain mis-hearings and dropped audio. Quote the video, not the text —
each town's report links every finding to the exact second of the recording.

Town	Transcripts	Meetings covered	Transcribed	Size	Addresses redacted
Darien	1,440	2019-2026	82%	33.2 MB	1,518
East Haddam	1,348	2020-2026	82%	24.2 MB	763
Simsbury	1,295	2012-2026	69%	27.2 MB	999
New Canaan	1,285	2020-2026	84%	30.9 MB	904
East Lyme	1,228	2013-2026	95%	18.6 MB	693
Norwalk	1,190	2016-2026	98%	22.9 MB	893
Groton	1,181	2016-2026	82%	27.7 MB	1,880
Guilford	1,026	2013-2026	79%	23.6 MB	1,541
Mansfield	982	2021-2026	78%	19.3 MB	594
Fairfield	855	2009-2026	98%	28.9 MB	1,017
West Hartford	761	2012-2026	93%	20.2 MB	1,519
Bethel	755	2016-2026	76%	14.3 MB	533
Berlin	731	2020-2026	78%	15.7 MB	725
Kent	696	2020-2026	74%	13.2 MB	252
Old Lyme	631	2021-2026	71%	13.6 MB	376
Farmington	620	2019-2026	67%	13.6 MB	1,084
North Branford	615	2013-2026	71%	14.7 MB	726
Ledyard	615	2011-2026	44%	7.7 MB	545
New Haven	613	2020-2026	91%	13.8 MB	1,324
Westport	602	2023-2026	69%	13.5 MB	612
Monroe	569	2018-2026	67%	11.0 MB	637
Newington	535	2021-2026	73%	12.3 MB	781
Brookfield	499	2020-2026	94%	11.1 MB	575
Wethersfield	488	2019-2026	62%	13.0 MB	1,220
Plainfield	485	2018-2026	62%	5.6 MB	164
Orange	483	2020-2026	98%	8.5 MB	523
Wallingford	477	2016-2026	90%	13.0 MB	564
Stamford	474	2014-2026	11%	4.2 MB	880
Hartford	460	2018-2026	95%	10.5 MB	529
Waterbury	444	2017-2026	86%	10.5 MB	738
Coventry	426	2020-2026	73%	17.4 MB	3,944
Watertown	425	2019-2026	78%	6.0 MB	505
Seymour	419	2015-2026	83%	5.7 MB	247
North Haven	398	2013-2026	23%	8.6 MB	1,021
Middletown	395	2020-2026	19%	4.0 MB	609
Columbia	383	2020-2026	60%	5.9 MB	187
Southington	375	2019-2026	97%	10.0 MB	612
Old Saybrook	342	2024-2026	99%	6.1 MB	95
Somers	332	2018-2026	55%	5.2 MB	319
Milford	327	2015-2026	95%	8.6 MB	995
Danbury	327	2020-2026	16%	2.9 MB	577
Killingworth	283	2020-2026	71%	4.7 MB	96
New Britain	281	2019-2026	32%	5.1 MB	565
Stonington	274	2020-2026	70%	5.8 MB	333
Granby	269	2014-2026	98%	6.5 MB	365
Norwich	253	2024-2026	54%	4.4 MB	411
Andover	242	2021-2026	49%	5.9 MB	109
Plainville	236	2019-2026	72%	5.1 MB	418
Portland	231	2014-2026	49%	5.6 MB	276
Ashford	228	2020-2026	49%	4.2 MB	122
East Windsor	227	2017-2026	46%	4.1 MB	185
East Granby	227	2015-2026	97%	3.8 MB	94
Cheshire	200	2018-2026	46%	6.2 MB	530
New Milford	196	2016-2026	44%	4.3 MB	313
Killingly	195	2023-2026	64%	4.8 MB	555
North Stonington	193	2020-2026	43%	4.9 MB	176
Rocky Hill	190	2020-2026	47%	4.0 MB	324
Bristol	183	2019-2026	76%	4.2 MB	149
New Fairfield	145	2022-2026	76%	2.9 MB	106
Bridgeport	142	2016-2026	90%	3.7 MB	163
Naugatuck	141	2018-2027	58%	2.6 MB	151
South Windsor	140	2021-2026	97%	4.5 MB	405
East Hampton	136	2020-2026	55%	3.1 MB	472
Deep River	134	2021-2026	51%	3.0 MB	77
Easton	133	2020-2023	83%	2.8 MB	48
Bethany	133	2024-2026	70%	2.8 MB	120
Sterling	132	2025-2026	96%	1.4 MB	25
East Hartford	126	2021-2026	100%	5.4 MB	995
Griswold	116	2023-2026	86%	1.4 MB	54
Ansonia	109	2017-2026	96%	2.8 MB	173
Clinton	107	2021-2026	52%	1.6 MB	43
Suffield	104	2019-2026	90%	1.8 MB	176
North Canaan	101	2025-2026	99%	0.9 MB	24
Lebanon	100	2024-2026	83%	2.1 MB	81
Canterbury	95	2020-2026	39%	1.2 MB	15
Bolton	90	2020-2026	37%	2.0 MB	60
Cromwell	85	2025-2026	99%	2.1 MB	125
Lyme	75	2021-2026	75%	1.5 MB	26
Cornwall	70	2015-2026	22%	1.2 MB	21
Avon	69	2017-2026	78%	2.1 MB	81
Windsor	65	2015-2026	49%	2.2 MB	79
Chester	61	2025-2026	84%	1.4 MB	12
New Hartford	60	2009-2026	44%	1.1 MB	38
Canaan	60	2024-2026	62%	1.4 MB	20
Hebron	57	2024-2026	37%	1.6 MB	68
Roxbury	52	2023-2026	18%	0.8 MB	23
Plymouth	49	2017-2026	38%	1.1 MB	58
Norfolk	39	2020-2024	93%	0.6 MB	1
Vernon	35	2023-2026	41%	0.4 MB	26
Oxford	35	2024-2026	73%	0.3 MB	15
Ellington	33	2022-2026	36%	0.9 MB	4
Thomaston	32	2020-2026	33%	0.5 MB	6
Waterford	30	2026-2026	42%	0.6 MB	6
Lisbon	22	2026-2026	100%	0.3 MB	8
Pomfret	18	2025-2026	100%	0.1 MB	11
Bloomfield	11	2018-2019	20%	0.2 MB	23
Haddam	10	2020-2022	10%	0.1 MB	1