At-a-glance information for:

• All counties
• All cities and counties
• Sunshine Week

Media commentary about this site:

• Birmingham News commentary, March 15, 2009
• Birmingham News editorial, March 22
• Associated Press statewide story, March 20
• Mobile Register story, March 15
• Interview with WJXL-AM, Walker County, March 16

Links to Alabama local government sites and data

What's here

A class of journalism graduate students looked for useful public information maintained by Alabama counties, and cities with at least 4,000 residents. Students found that 25 of the state's 67 counties have no Web sites, and the quality of county-maintained sites varies wildly.
(The analysis for city sites is incomplete and not yet available.)

What to do

Click on a name below to see what, if anything, that local government has on its Web site. Or, on the right, click on links with at-a-glance looks at what categories of information are available on all county and city Web sites.