Never Miss What Matters: Custom Alerts for Your Town
You shouldn't have to check a website to know what's happening in your community.
Building permits get issued. Meeting agendas drop. Crime spikes. Budget reports land. All of it matters — but none of it announces itself. Until now.
Custom Alerts let you define exactly what you care about, and we'll email you the moment something changes.
Three Ways to Create an Alert
We built three creation modes so you can set up alerts however feels natural:
AI Assist — Describe what you care about in plain English. "Tell me when a new liquor license is filed" or "Alert me if crime incidents spike above the monthly average." Our AI translates your intent into a structured alert.
Templates — Pick from pre-built templates for common scenarios: new meeting posted, budget change detected, building permit over a threshold, zoning variance filed, school report card released, and more. One click and you're subscribed.
Manual — Full control. Choose a category, set conditions, pick your delivery schedule. Power users will feel right at home.
14 Categories, One Inbox
Alerts span every data category on the platform:
- Meetings & agendas
- News articles
- Crime incidents
- Building permits
- Business licenses
- Liquor & gaming licenses
- Calendar events
- Budget & finance reports
- Property tax changes
- Sales tax revenue
- School data
- Pension fund updates
- TIF district reports
- Litigation filings
Each alert has a simple on/off toggle. Need a break? Snooze any alert for a day, a week, or a month — without losing your configuration.
Email Delivery You Can Trust
Every alert email includes:
- A clear subject line describing the change
- A direct link to the relevant data on MyTownView
- Open and click tracking so we can improve delivery (no spam, ever)
We send alerts in real time as data updates land, or you can batch them into a daily digest. Your choice.
Why This Matters
Most civic platforms expect you to visit them. That's backwards. Your town's public data should come to you — filtered to the things you actually care about.
Custom Alerts are available on all paid plans. Resident users get alerts for their town. Analyst users get alerts across all 240+ municipalities.
Ready to set yours up? Head to your Dashboard and create your first alert in under a minute.