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Enter your village, town or district’s website. In about ten seconds you’ll see what the law asks a local government to post, what we could find on your site, and the basics residents notice first. The checklist follows New York’s General Municipal Law 300, the most specific list we know, and the federal ADA web rule.
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Opening the home page and the pages it links to for meetings, documents and finances.
- .gov, HTTPS, phones
- A .gov address is free for any US local government, and New York requires one at 1,500 residents. A secure connection and a phone layout are what residents notice first.
- Meetings
- Notices, agendas and minutes, as open-meetings laws require.
- Code and local laws
- The current code, local laws and resolutions, or an active link to them.
- The financial documents
- The budget, the annual financial report and the latest audit, from GML 30(7).
- Records requests
- How to make a FOIL request, and to whom.
- Accessibility basics
- A declared language and described images: two early signs of the WCAG 2.1 AA work due April 26, 2028.