About

3 Mins Local turns long LA City Council meetings into a short, readable editorial briefing.

The point is not to sound like City Hall. The point is to help ordinary people understand what happened, what mattered, and what residents actually said on the record. Briefings are editorial: they select, summarize, and interpret. Every quote links back to the official recording so you can judge the source yourself.

Why public comment matters

Formal agendas tell you what the city says it is discussing. Public comment often tells you where the pressure really is.

That is why 3 Mins Local pays close attention to resident testimony, organizing asks, neighborhood concerns, labor fights, housing pressure, and the moments where the official script breaks down into plain English.

How this works

3 Mins Local uses meeting metadata, public video transcripts, structured extraction, and human review to build each issue.

The workflow is designed to:

• capture the original meeting context
• preserve links back to the source recording
• turn long meetings into something a real person can read quickly

The three-minute briefing is the main stop. For meetings where we have the full structured data, a companion full brief lists every agenda item and public comment we captured, with timestamped links into the recording.

3 Mins Local covers regular LA City Council meetings. If a meeting is missing from the archive, it has not been processed yet — not every meeting is guaranteed to be covered.

What this is not

This is not official city communication.

It is not a replacement for the full public record.

It is an editorial layer built to help people keep up with local government without spending their week inside meeting archives.