OAKINFO.ORG

Oakinfo.org

Oakland city government in plain English.

● 2 districts live Expanding to all 7 Built from public records

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New to this?
Oakland Politics, Plainly
A 5-minute, no-jargon guide to how the city works — and the one moment where a few voices still change the outcome.
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Find your district

District 1 · North Oakland
District 1 Watch
Rockridge, Temescal, Bushrod & North Oakland · Councilmember Zac Unger.
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District 3 · West/Downtown
District 3 Watch
West Oakland, Downtown, Uptown & Lake Merritt · Councilmember Carroll Fife.
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Districts 2, 4, 5, 6, 7
Coming soon
Same model, rolling out district by district. The plumbing is shared — each new district is mostly a profile + neighborhoods.
In progress

Why this exists

Oakland’s public information is real but scattered across a dozen city systems and buried in jargon-filled PDFs. Oakinfo.org pulls it together, translates it to plain English, and — the part that matters — tells you when and how to act before a decision becomes final.