Nonpartisan research for the citizens who fund government.
Every scandal that dominates the news is federal. The real money — the unwatched money — is local. A county can move half a billion dollars with a three-paragraph notice, and no reporter left in the room to ask why.
When no one reads the contracts, insiders start writing them for each other — no-bid deals, ballooning payrolls, debt that compounds in the dark.
The watchdog didn’t go digital. It died — and the spending moved into the shadows it left behind.
A national network of elite professionals — high-level command of political, media, and financial-accounting methodology — assembled into a rapid investigative unit built for one target: local government. Think of it as DOGE for your county — the same relentless audit of waste, but local, permanent, and blind to party. We move fast, we read everything, and we love to expose what the records were hiding.
Small by design. Specific in mission. No ego — and no mercy for a buried number.
What they voted for, what they spent, what they owe — not who they offended online.
Thousands of pages of public record, read in hours — not months.
Never candidates. Never parties. If the facts embarrass someone, that’s not our concern.
Government is a stewardship of other people’s money — taken under threat of law, from people who had no choice.
The method is fully public. Any citizen can use it.
You paid for the difference — in higher taxes for the same service.
Our published research, free to read — and built to be checked.
Each was brought to us by citizens. Each has an election where the facts matter.
All from the public record. Published in full at SarasotaCountyFacts.org.
Corruption is bipartisan — it grows under every flag. We hold no party, we distrust them all equally, and we keep the watchdog ready to pounce on whoever’s in power.
The records say what they say. The math is what it is.
LGAI is a for-hire public accountability SWAT team. We move in, read what no one else will, and publish the brutal truth — no spin, no sugarcoating, no political mumbo-jumbo. The impact is immediate. And the question we leave behind is always the same: who are these guys?
You are the check and balance now. We’re the unit you send in.