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Petitions across the country

Residents’ requests to their county, their state and Congress. Many are shared: the same ask is open in many places at once, each copy addressed to that place’s own officials and counted toward its own goal. Every petition says who started it.

Shared petitions

To Congress

Petition	Places open	Signed
Make every prison in America an accredited school for earning a living	1	0
Keep calls from prison and jail affordable, and keep in-person visits	1	0
Require project-by-project reporting of federal money sent to local governments	1	0
Require federal agencies to publish government purchase-card spending item by item	1	0

To state lawmakers — open in every state

Petition	Places open	Signed
Require every county, city and school district in each state to post its payments online	51	0
Set statewide rules for license-plate camera data in each state	51	0
Make every each state prison an accredited school for earning a living	51	0
Direct each state Medicaid to cover produce prescriptions	51	0
Require each state agencies to publish purchase-card spending item by item	51	0

To county officials — open in every county with a site

Petition	Places open	Signed
Post every county payment online, every month, as searchable data	3,083	0
Disclose every award paid from county tax money that's handed to outside groups	92	0
Before buying or renewing license-plate cameras: a public hearing, the contract posted, and a yearly audit	92	0
Post meeting agendas a week ahead, and video or minutes of every meeting, online	92	0
Open unused county land to community gardens on a $1 revocable license	92	0
Create a county food policy council with seats for growers, schools and the food bank	92	0
Start a community seed library in the county library system	92	0
Set a goal for buying local food in county institutions, and ask school districts to do the same	92	0
Support a local food hub with shared cold storage and a commercial kitchen	92	0
Support a local nonprofit’s application for a USDA Community Food Projects grant	92	0
Receive resident petitions at a public meeting and post a written answer	92	0
Hold a public hearing on how the general fund is divided before the budget is adopted	92	0
Text people a reminder before their court date	91	0
Start an optional jail garden with the county Extension office	91	0
Include classroom, shop, kitchen and garden space in any new or renovated county jail	91	0
Pilot an optional, paid jail crew that builds homes with a licensed builder and a nonprofit	91	0
Fund a voluntary live-in program with housing, work and recovery that anyone may leave	91	0

Find your county’s page at countycommons.us/us to sign one from there; signatures are counted by county.