Accountability Doesn’t Start in Washington. It Starts at Home.

Municipal Watchdog is a national civic oversight and training organization focused on strengthening

transparency, accountability, and lawful governance in small and mid-sized municipalities. While

federal and state actions receive the majority of public attention, the decisions that most directly affect

residents’ daily lives are made at the local level — through zoning boards, school districts, utility

authorities, and procurement offices.

Our mission is to equip communities with professional-grade tools to understand, monitor, and evaluate

how their local governments operate. Through structured training, public-records education, and

oversight frameworks, we help residents recognize risk, demand transparency, and ensure that public

institutions function in the best interests of the communities they serve.

Municipal Watchdog brings professional investigative standards to the local level, where oversight is weakest and the impact is greatest. We train citizens to recognize when something is improper, unlawful, or simply not in the public interest — and we give them the tools to act before damage becomes permanent.