About Clarivis
Compliance the people running local government never had tools for.
We built Clarivis to close the gap between the Open Meetings Act and the volunteer officials responsible for following it: a legal workflow carried by hand, meeting after meeting, with no tool built for it until now.
The problem
Most of the committees covered by the Open Meetings Act run on volunteer time and part-time staff support. The statute makes no allowance for that. A planning board and a full-time city clerk’s office are held to the same notice periods, the same agenda standards and the same filing deadlines, and the record either exists or it does not. The gap that produces is not a matter of care.
What the record shows
Across Rhode Island's 39 cities and towns, about 46% of the 7,750 public-body meetings held from September 2025 through August 2026 had minutes filed with the Secretary of State within 35 days.
Where these numbers come from
- Source
- Rhode Island Department of State, OpenMeetings portal, opengov.sos.ri.gov.
- Coverage
- 3,550 of those meetings had minutes filed on time.
- How a meeting is counted
- A meeting counts as on time when its minutes were filed with the Secretary of State within 35 days of the meeting date, the deadline set by R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-46-7(d). Minutes filed late, and minutes never filed, both count as missing that deadline. Every meeting on the portal in that window is included, except cancelled meetings and meetings still inside their own 35-day window, which are left out rather than counted as late. Bodies whose responsibilities are solely advisory are exempt from the state filing requirement; the portal does not say which bodies those are, so their meetings are counted here too.
- What this does not measure
- Minutes filing only. The 48-hour notice and agenda requirements of § 42-46-6(b) are separate obligations and are not reflected in this figure. A meeting counted on time here met its filing deadline; it does not follow that every other requirement was met.
- If this looks wrong
- A town’s own records are authoritative. If anything here reads wrong to you, we would like to know, and we will correct it.
Clarivis is an operating system for open meetings compliance: one place where a committee’s agenda, notice, recording, minutes and filing deadlines are governed by the statute that actually applies to it, with every step advisory and every record approved by a person before it stands.
For committees
Agenda sufficiency checks before you post, notice and minutes deadline tracking, transcription, and drafted minutes you edit and approve. You stay the author of the record; Clarivis flags what the law asks it to contain.
Who we are
Clarivis PBC is a Delaware public benefit corporation, founded in 2026. Our charter commits us to a specific public benefit: to promote government transparency and civic participation by making public meeting law compliance accessible to municipal bodies and residents, particularly in underserved jurisdictions.
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