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list_government_documents

List government documents

A tool of OpenPublica

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List a government's adopted plan and budget documents.

Each entry carries covers — every general-plan element that document
answers for. A city that publishes one bound general plan satisfies all
eight with the same PDF, so do not conclude an element is unpublished
because no entry is named after it.

status says what the entry offers: converted is searchable and readable;
superseded is a retired edition, still stored but not searchable; and
**failed means we hold this document and could not read it — it is not
evidence the city published nothing.** Cite source_url in that case; it is
always the city's own copy.

An availability block appears ONLY when something is wrong with a
document, and availability.reason says what. No availability key means
there is nothing to report.

Input schema

PropertyTypeRequiredDescription
government_idstringyesaccount_id from find_local_governments.
include_supersededbooleannoAlso include prior editions retired by a newer document.
Raw JSON schema
{
  "properties": {
    "government_id": {
      "description": "account_id from find_local_governments.",
      "title": "Government Id",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "include_superseded": {
      "default": false,
      "description": "Also include prior editions retired by a newer document.",
      "title": "Include Superseded",
      "type": "boolean"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "government_id"
  ],
  "title": "list_government_documentsArguments",
  "type": "object"
}

First seen 2026-09-14 · last seen 2026-09-14