Loquio Public Meetings · Release 6.4

Meeting software your residents can actually find things in.

Agendas, minutes, meeting video and the full public record, published from one system and searchable back to whatever year your archive starts. Loquio is a standard product. Agencies configure it, they do not commission it.

Release cadence
Quarterly
Accessibility target
WCAG 2.1 AA
Deployment
3 models
Public API
REST, documented

Standard portal, no bespoke screens

Ships as configured
meetings.youragency.gov/records/search
Rescheduled

Planning Commission moves to Wednesday 19 August, 6:30 PM

Search meetings, agendas, minutes or documents
  • Today · 6:00 PM Live now

    City Council, special meeting

    Council Chambers and online · agenda, packet, watch live

  • Tue 18 Aug · 5:30 PM Agenda published

    Parks and Recreation Board

    9 items · packet 210 KB · add to calendar

  • Tue 25 Aug · 12:00 PM Upcoming

    Budget and Finance Committee

    Agenda publishes 5 days before · notify me

What ships in the box

Every module below is in the base product.

There is no starter edition that leaves out search, and no add on that unlocks accessibility. Agencies turn modules on, name them in their own language, and set who can publish what.

Public portal

Resident home page, quick links, upcoming meetings, alerts and help, all editable without a developer.

Meetings and calendar

Month and list views, board filters, per meeting calendar files and subscribable feeds for a whole board.

Agendas and minutes

Web and document versions of every agenda, packet and set of minutes, with revisions and a visible change history.

Records search

One index across meetings, items, minutes, attachment text and transcripts, filtered by board, type, year and date range.

Live and recorded video

Streaming, archive playback, captions, transcripts and chapter markers bound to agenda items.

Boards and committees

Directory, schedules, membership and terms, seat vacancies, and public applications for open positions.

Notices and subscriptions

Cancellations, reschedules and revisions posted as alerts, plus per board email subscriptions with confirmed opt in.

Site content manager

Headings, help text, quick links, contact details and footer links, all controlled by staff rather than by a release.

What we do not do for each customer

We do not fork the product, write agency specific screens, or maintain a branch for one deployment. Everything an agency changes is configuration, which is why upgrades stay routine and support stays fast. If a capability is genuinely missing, it goes on the product roadmap and every customer gets it.

How delivery works

The resident view

Most people arrive with one question and ten seconds of patience.

The home page answers the common ones without navigation: when the next meeting is, what is on it, whether it is still happening, and where last month's decision went. Everything else is one click away.

  • Six meeting states, all visible

    Upcoming, agenda published, live now, completed, cancelled and rescheduled, each with the right actions and none of the wrong ones.

  • Alerts that carry their record

    A cancellation posts to the top of the site, timestamped, and links straight to the meeting it concerns.

  • Nothing dead ends

    Agenda not published yet, minutes still in draft, recording not processed: each state says what happens next and offers a notification.

  • Built for phones first

    Search, documents, calendar, video and subscriptions all work on a phone. The mobile site is the site, not a cut down copy.

Standard meeting states

  • UpcomingScheduled and published. Actions: details, add to calendar, notify me when the agenda posts.
  • Agenda publishedAgenda and packet available. Actions: read online, download, item level attachments.
  • Live nowBroadcast in progress. Actions: watch, follow the agenda, audio only stream.
  • CompletedRecording and draft minutes attached, then approved minutes and the vote record.
  • RescheduledNew date carries the old one, an alert posts, and subscribers are emailed.
  • CancelledNotice published with the reason, and items carried to the next meeting stay linked.

Records, search and the archive

A public record is only public if someone can find it.

Loquio indexes the whole archive as one searchable body: meetings, agenda items, minutes, decisions, the text inside attachments and the transcript of every recording. Nobody needs to know the meeting date to find the answer.

One index, seven record types

Meeting, agenda, agenda item, minutes, attachment, video and public notice. Filter by board, year, date range and type, or search across all of them at once.

Results you can act on

Every result shows the board, the date, the record type and the matching text, so people stop opening five pages to identify the right one.

Items that span meetings

When the same matter returns to committee, Loquio shows every meeting that considered it, in order, with each action taken. One item, not four near duplicates.

Video bound to the agenda

Chapter markers are generated against agenda items, so a decision links to the minute it was discussed rather than to a three hour file.

Stable public URLs

Meetings, agendas, minutes and boards each have a permanent address. Links published in a newspaper five years ago keep resolving after migration.

Findable outside the portal

Clean URLs, page titles and descriptions, sitemaps, sharing previews and structured meeting data, so search engines index the public record and nothing else.

Search analytics, included

Staff can see the terms residents search, which searches return nothing, which filters get used and which pages people leave from. Zero result searches are the fastest way to find out what your site should say and does not.

Accessibility

Accessibility is a property of the product, not a project task.

Components are built and tested once, then every agency inherits them. That is the practical argument for buying rather than building: the accessible calendar, the accessible filters and the accessible media player already exist, and they get retested every release rather than once at launch.

Loquio is developed against WCAG 2.1 Level AA. Each release goes through automated rule checks in the build pipeline and a manual pass covering keyboard operation, screen reader output and reflow. Current conformance documentation, including the accessibility conformance report, is provided during evaluation. Verify it against your own standard before you rely on it.

Tested every release

  • Keyboard operation, whole site
  • Visible focus and skip links
  • Semantic headings and landmarks
  • Screen reader passes
  • Accessible calendar and filters
  • Accessible forms and error states
  • Media player controls and captions
  • Contrast, and never colour alone
  • Reflow at 400 percent zoom
  • Text resize without loss
  • Accessible dialogs and menus
  • Reduced motion respected

Documents, not just pages

Agendas and minutes publish as structured web pages as well as files, so the accessible version is the primary version. Uploaded attachments are checked at publication and flagged when they need remediation, and residents can request an alternative format from any record.

Platform

The public site is a view of the record, not a second copy of it.

Staff publish once, in the system where the work already happens. Nothing is retyped for the website, which is why the website is never a week behind the meeting.

Integrations, standard

  • Agenda and meeting management
  • Document repositories
  • Streaming and video platforms
  • Captioning services
  • Email and notification delivery
  • Calendar feeds and subscriptions
  • Single sign on for staff, SAML
  • Directory provisioning, SCIM
  • Electronic signature
  • Website and CMS embedding

Each integration is an adapter. Replacing a streaming or captioning vendor is a configuration change, not a rebuild, and one failing adapter never takes the public site down with it.

Public API and webhooks

A documented REST API exposes meetings, boards, agendas, items, minutes, attachments, status and video references, with encrypted transport, scoped authorisation, predictable responses and rate limits. Webhooks fire on publication and status changes. Agencies use it to put the next meeting on the main city site or to feed an open data portal.

GET /v1/meetings?board=council&status=published&from=2026-01-01

POST /v1/webhooks · meeting.published, meeting.cancelled, minutes.approved

Published and restricted, kept apart

Nothing reaches the public site because it exists in the system. Publication is explicit, permissions apply at item and attachment level, and the same rules are enforced in the API as in the interface. Draft agendas, confidential attachments and closed session material are not addressable by anonymous visitors.

  • Item and attachment level publication states
  • Role based staff access with audit trail
  • Restricted records excluded from the index and from crawlers

Hosting, security and continuity

Deploy to our multi tenant cloud, to a government cloud region, or into your own infrastructure including air gapped environments. Encryption in transit and at rest, hardened administrative access with multi factor authentication, dependency and vulnerability management, application and security logging, automated backups with tested restores, and a disaster recovery region.

Availability commitments, backup retention and recovery targets are set in the service agreement. Compliance posture is SOC 2 aligned, and processing terms are written to support GDPR aligned and state privacy obligations. Current attestations, penetration test summaries and sub processor lists are shared under NDA during evaluation.

Performance on the nights that matter

Public pages are cached and served from the edge, documents stream rather than block, and the read path scales independently of staff publishing. A contentious hearing brings a year of traffic in one evening, which is exactly when the site has to stay up, so that load pattern is what the product is tuned for.

Getting live

A standard implementation, because it is standard software.

Configuration, migration and training follow the same path every time. Most of the calendar is your review cycles rather than our build time.

  1. Stage 01

    Configure

    Boards, meeting types, publication rules, branding, wording and quick links. Staging environment available from the first week.

  2. Stage 02

    Migrate

    Historical meetings, agendas, items, minutes, attachments and video references, with relationships preserved and old links redirected.

  3. Stage 03

    Validate

    Migration reports for completeness, broken files, duplicates and publication status, plus accessibility, performance and security checks before sign off.

  4. Stage 04

    Train and launch

    Clerk and administrator training, recorded sessions, written guides, launch checklist, then support from the same team that ran the deployment.

Migration is a product feature

We have moved archives off the common legacy systems often enough that the tooling ships with the product. Historical records should be easier to find after the move, not harder.

Training that outlives the project

Administrator and clerk guides, short task videos and a help centre, all kept current with each release rather than frozen at go live.

Support and releases

Named support contacts, defined response and escalation targets, quarterly feature releases, security patches out of band, and a published roadmap customers vote on.

Editions

Priced on the size of the agency, not on which features you are allowed.

Every edition includes the public portal, agendas and minutes, records search, video, accessibility and the API. What changes is deployment, integration depth and support commitments.

Core

Smaller agencies and single board authorities on our cloud.

Custom, scoped

  • Full public portal and records search
  • Agendas, minutes, packets and alerts
  • Video embedding and captions
  • Subscriptions and site content manager
  • Standard migration package
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Standard

Most agencies

Cities and counties running multiple boards with live broadcast.

Custom, scoped

  • Everything in Core
  • Streaming, chapters and transcripts
  • REST API, webhooks and calendar feeds
  • Staff single sign on and provisioning
  • Board applications and search analytics
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Enterprise

State agencies and authorities with residency and audit obligations.

Custom, scoped

  • Everything in Standard
  • Government cloud, single tenant or on premises
  • Regional data residency and custom retention
  • Audit log export and named support
  • Complex archive migration and multi agency tenancy
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Procurement paths include direct award where permitted, cooperative purchasing agreements and reseller partners. Ask us which apply in your state.

Questions we get

Before the evaluation committee meets.

Who owns the data, and how do we get it back?

The agency owns its records. A full export of meetings, documents, metadata and relationships is available at any time in open formats through the interface and the API, and the export right is written into the agreement rather than offered as a favour at renewal.

Can it match our existing website?

Yes, through theming: logo, colours, typography, header and footer links, and page wording. Layout and components stay standard, which is what keeps accessibility and upgrades reliable. Portal sections can also be embedded into your main site through the API.

What happens to twenty years of old minutes?

They move with their relationships intact and become searchable, including the text inside scanned documents where the source quality allows it. You receive a validation report covering completeness, document associations, broken files, duplicates and publication status before launch.

We already have a streaming provider. Is that a problem?

No. Streaming, captioning and storage are adapters. Keep the provider you have, or change it later without touching the public site. Chapter markers and transcripts work the same way regardless of who carries the video.

How do upgrades work, and can they break our site?

Releases land quarterly and reach your staging environment first. Because no deployment carries custom code, upgrades are routine rather than a project, and security patches ship as soon as they are ready instead of waiting for the next release.

Something we need is missing. Will you build it?

If it belongs in the product, it goes on the roadmap and ships to everyone. If it is specific to one agency, the API is usually the honest answer. We would rather say that than sell a fork nobody can maintain, including us.

Book a demo

Bring one of your own meetings. We will publish it in the product on the call.

Forty five minutes on the working software, not slides. Bring an agenda, a packet and a recording, and you will see the meeting record, the search result and the video chapters your residents would get.

Talk to the team

sales@sdlccorp.com

Tell us how many boards you publish for, whether you broadcast, and where the archive lives today. You get a scoped proposal, an evaluation environment and the current documentation pack.

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