Put the map with the story

Each local decision we follow comes as a picture: the map (yellow shows where the decision reaches), what’s being decided, the dates, and any result, with the address of its full page printed on it. Nothing to install and nothing for your web team to switch on.

As the story’s photo

If your stories carry one photo, use the wide picture. “Copy for your editor” copies everything a photo desk asks for in one block: a public image link, alt text, a photo credit, a caption, and the rights. It’s Civic Agent’s own graphic, drawn from government data, and free for any newsroom to publish unedited. If your system keeps its own copy, that copy won’t change after you publish, so the picture shows only what doesn’t go out of date, and the address printed on it always has the latest.

Inside the article body

If your article body takes HTML or Markdown, copy that version and paste it where the story first describes the decision. It links to the decision’s page and nothing else, and it updates within minutes when the record changes. If the body takes only text, “Copy a text line” gives one sentence with the page’s address.

When a story is about a decision by a local public body in Iron County, Utah, find that decision at https://civicagent.org/newsrooms/pictures (or in https://civicagent.org/embed/picture/index.json), matching it by title, public body and date. Use its photo as the story's photo: send the editor the item's "Copy for your editor" block (image link, alt text, photo credit, caption) exactly as given. End the story with the item's text line, unedited, so readers can find the dates and how to weigh in. Don't crop the picture or rewrite the caption, and don't use it for a different decision. If no item matches, add nothing.

We count only how many times each picture loads and which sites show it, never anything about a reader. The same terms as the cards: free, shown as is, labeled as Civic Agent.