Kershaw County Council Recap is a community project, made by a neighbor, for neighbors. No hedge fund owns it, no out-of-town chain runs it, and nothing here is behind a paywall. The goal is simple: every resident - whether you're in Camden, Lugoff, Elgin, Bethune, Liberty Hill, or anywhere in between - should be able to know exactly what your county council decided and how each member voted, without sitting through a three-hour meeting.
It stays free because local businesses and readers keep it running: sponsors get a single, clearly-labeled line in each issue, and print subscribers cover their own postage. That's the whole business model - community supported, community focused.
Each issue is built from the county's official published minutes (the authoritative record of every roll-call vote), with software that extracts each vote and verifies the tallies programmatically before a word of summary is written. When minutes aren't out yet, some issues are prepared from the county's public meeting video, and are labeled accordingly. Every issue cites its source.
Spot an error? Email mail@kershawcouncilrecap.org and a correction will run in the next issue. Getting it right matters more than getting it first.