Sources
Every source the Ledger reads or plans to read, who publishes it and how it is reached. Where a government system refuses automated access, the Ledger does not crawl it: it links, subscribes to the agency's own email list, or asks.
Every source this site reads or plans to read, with how it is reached. 'script' = machine-readable and read by a pipeline script; 'session' = read by a person or a session, never crawled; 'email' = arrives by the agency's own email list; 'link only' = the host refuses automated access, so the Ledger links and does not crawl; 'not yet examined' = reachable, contents unverified. As of Sept. 19, 2026. Also as JSON.
Neighborhood boards
Source
Publisher
Reached by
Used for
Status
Neighborhood Commission Office (NCO)
session (page fetcher; fetching the boards index as markdown returns every board's link)
The 33 active boards, their names, meeting information and links to each year's agendas and minutes. The city's firewall rejects scripts, so pages are read at session time.
all 33 board pages read Sept. 19, 2026 for meeting day, time and place: four as the city's page stood that day (Nos. 3, 10, 29, 30), 29 from the page reader's stored copies, which carry no date; each area page says which
NCO
email
The sanctioned push feed for board agendas and minutes. A person must submit the form; it collects only from the day it starts.
pending
City and County of Honolulu
link only
The back archive to the mid-2000s. The server refuses automated access; the Ledger links to documents and has asked NCO how it prefers the archive be obtained.
refused
ʻŌlelo Community Media (Granicus)
link only
robots.txt disallows all bots. Link only.
refused
Geography
Source
Publisher
Reached by
Used for
Status
City and County of Honolulu GIS
script
tools/build_board_registry.py: the 33 area pages, the map and the point-in-board join.
confirmed
State of Hawaiʻi, Office of Planning and Sustainable Development
script (tools/oahu_tmk_boards.py)
Placing a tax map key in a neighborhood board area.
used Sept. 19, 2026: five of six tax map keys found and placed in a board area; one key the council printed is not in the layer
State of Hawaiʻi GIS program, from the U.S. Board on Geographic Names
script (tools/gazetteer.py)
The ʻokina and kahakō in place names that government data strips.
read Sept. 19, 2026: 7,323 names; every name the site prints checked, and the check published at /standards/place-names/
Land use and permits
Source
Publisher
Reached by
Used for
Status
Department of Planning and Permitting (DPP)
script
pipeline/fetch_dpp_public_input.py: every open application, in DPP's words, assigned to a board area.
confirmed
DPP, on data.honolulu.gov
script
Static snapshot. Permits from August 2025 on are in HNL Build, which has no open dataset; the Ledger has asked DPP about one. Not yet on the site.
static
DPP
session
Permits since August 2025. Whether a public, non-login search exists is unverified.
not yet examined
City Council
Source
Publisher
Reached by
Used for
Status
Honolulu City Council
script
pipeline/fetch_hnldoc.py: agendas for the full Council and its committees, with the meeting date and the document.
confirmed
Honolulu City Council
script
Same endpoint; only the agenda category key is confirmed so far.
pattern
Honolulu City Council
session download of the text PDF, then tools/hnl_committee_agenda.py
Land-use items before the council, in the council's words, placed by the tax map keys they print.
one agenda read Sept. 19, 2026: Committee on Zoning and Planning, Sept. 24, 2026 (nine action items)
Honolulu City Council
session (the council's own pages) plus the city's GIS district layer
Naming each area's councilmember and the committee that hears a measure.
read Sept. 19, 2026: nine districts and members, nine committees with chairs and members
City open data
Source
Publisher
Reached by
Used for
Status
City and County of Honolulu
script
Machine-readable (Socrata). Not yet on the site. HPD incident data is held back pending a publisher decision; the standing rule bars crime items from automated pages.
confirmed
Census
Source
Publisher
Reached by
Used for
Status
U.S. Census Bureau, through the Census Reporter API
script
pipeline/fetch_acs.py: population, households, median household income, tenure and median age, each with its margin of error.
confirmed
Maui County
Source
Publisher
Reached by
Used for
Status
Maui County Council
script
pipeline/fetch_legistar.py: every meeting this year with its agenda and the county's meeting page.
confirmed
County of Maui
script
pipeline/fetch_civicplus_agendas.py: the Maui, Molokaʻi and Lānaʻi planning commissions and seven other bodies. Polled slowly; the site refuses rapid requests.
confirmed
State of Hawaiʻi Office of Planning, Statewide GIS Program
script
tools/build_maui_registry.py: the eight inhabited areas and the map. The layer spells names without ʻokina or kahakō.
confirmed
County of Maui
session
Permits and planning applications. Whether a public search can be read is unverified.
examined Sept. 19, 2026: the county's help page says public records can be searched and viewed without registering an account; the portal is Tyler EnerGov Self Service (mapps2.co.maui.hi.us). One scripted search was answered HTTP 500 and was not repeated. Not used.
County of Maui
session
Rebuilding permits and recovery figures.
examined Sept. 19, 2026: the recovery dashboard is an ordinary page with its figures in the HTML (it printed “UPDATED September 15, 2026”), no login, and a robots file that only names a sitemap. Not yet used on the site.
County of Maui (published by Municode)
script (Municode's public API: client 6780, product 16289)
Who decides changes in zoning and community plan amendments.
read Sept. 19, 2026 at Supplement 76: §§ 19.510.040, 2.80B.100, 2.80B.110. The charter is carried as “reserved.”
County of Maui, Department of Planning
session (PDFs linked from each commission's page)
Who decides SMA use permits and SMA minor permits on each island.
read Sept. 19, 2026: Title MC-12, Chapters 202, 302 and 402, sections 14 and 15 of each
County of Maui
session, from the sandbox with eight seconds between requests (the page fetcher is refused; robots.txt allows these paths)
The Maui County land-use record: items in the county's words.
four agendas and one set of summary minutes read Sept. 19, 2026
County of Maui, Department of Planning
session download, then tools/maui_permit_reports.py
The wire's Maui County feedstock.
four reports read Sept. 19, 2026 (16 rows) and copied to the site under the publisher's names rule: names appear as the record prints them
State of Hawaiʻi, Office of Planning and Sustainable Development
script (tools/maui_tmk_areas.py)
Placing a tax map key in a community plan area.
used Sept. 19, 2026: 49 of 49 tax map keys found and placed; none disagreed with the agenda's community plan headings
State bodies (the statewide path)
Source
Publisher
Reached by
Used for
Status
State of Hawaiʻi
script (one RSS feed per board; pipeline/fetch_state_calendar.py and the watcher)
Every state board's meeting notices and agendas. Agendas of the Land Use Commission (Sept. 23), the Board of Land and Natural Resources (Sept. 25) and the Commission on Water Resource Management (Sept. 22) are read into items on /state/.
read Sept. 19, 2026: seven boards watched (HCDA, Land Use Commission, Board of Land and Natural Resources and its public hearings, Commission on Water Resource Management, HHFDC, Hawaiian Homes Commission); six meetings posted ahead
HCDA
script (state calendar feed)
Agendas and permits in Kakaʻako.
its calendar feed carried no meeting on Sept. 19, 2026; its site's RSS (dbedt.hawaii.gov/hcda/feed/) mixes news and agenda posts and is not used
State of Hawaiʻi
script (state calendar feed); agenda read in a session
District boundary amendments and special permits.
Sept. 23, 2026 agenda read into items (dockets A26-812 and A05-760)
State of Hawaiʻi Office of Planning and Sustainable Development
email
Projects in environmental review.
not yet examined
Taxes
Source
Publisher
Reached by
Used for
Status
City and County of Honolulu, Real Property Assessment Division
session download of the division's one-page PDF
The rate for each class, with tier thresholds.
fiscal year July 1, 2026 to June 30, 2027 read Sept. 19, 2026; Honolulu and Maui County carried on /taxes/
Elections
Source
Publisher
Reached by
Used for
Status
State of Hawaiʻi, Office of Elections
session (the office's own pages; the sandbox reads them, and robots.txt disallows only calendar views)
What the ballot decides in the two counties the Ledger covers (/election/). No candidate names are carried.
read Sept. 19, 2026 for the Nov. 3, 2026 general election: offices, seats, the two constitutional questions and the voter service centers
State of Hawaiʻi
script (Socrata)
Who funds county campaigns, if the publisher ever wants it.
reachable, not yet examined
Hawaiʻi County and Kauaʻi (built Sept. 19, 2026)
Source
Publisher
Reached by
Used for
Status
State of Hawaiʻi Statewide GIS Program
script (tools/build_region_registry.py)
The areas. The layer's description says it was digitized from paper copies of the community plan maps, so its lines are approximate.
read Sept. 19, 2026: nine Hawaiʻi Island districts and six Kauaʻi planning districts
State of Hawaiʻi Statewide GIS Program, from the County of Hawaiʻi
script
Which council districts cover each Hawaiʻi Island district.
read Sept. 19, 2026: nine districts, 'as of 2022' per the layer
County of Hawaiʻi
script (RSS; pipeline/fetch_granicus.py and the watcher)
Council and committee agendas and recordings.
100 meetings read Sept. 19, 2026, newest Sept. 16, 2026; the feed lists archived meetings only, not meetings ahead; the planning committee's Sept. 15, 2026 agenda read into items (Bill 147)
County of Kauaʻi
script (RSS; pipeline/fetch_granicus.py and the watcher)
Council, committee and Planning Commission agendas and recordings.
100 meetings read Sept. 19, 2026, newest Sept. 2, 2026, including the Planning Commission; the Planning Commission's Aug. 11, 2026 agenda (a scan) read into 14 items by OCR checked against the page images
The two counties
session only
Planning department pages, Hawaiʻi County's Windward and Leeward Planning Commissions: not yet read.
both answer scripts with HTTP 403 (Sept. 19, 2026), as does planning.hawaiicounty.gov; the page reader returned an older copy of the Planning Commissions page (it gave each commission's districts; its agendas were not reached)
State of Hawaiʻi Statewide GIS Program
script (tools/region_tmk_areas.py)
Places a tax map key in its area.
used Sept. 19, 2026 to place four state board keys