About Midwest Safety News

No one in America is more committed to government transparency than Midwest Safety.

First it was police body camera footage. We helped Americans see what was actually happening in interactions with law enforcement.

Now it is government at every level. Midwest Safety News lets readers see at a glance what their officials are doing in real time. Without commentary. In a way that is easy to understand. And best of all without ads.

The name is where we started. The mission is the same everywhere we take it.

What we cover

Our data is national. We track homicide rates for every state, rank the most dangerous cities in the country from FBI records and chart homicide rates for roughly 200 nations. We follow the economy with gas prices, housing costs, inflation and jobs in all 50 states. Our weather app gives live radar, forecasts and severe weather alerts for any location in the United States.

We are expanding our legislative tracking nationwide. It started in the Midwest and now reaches toward all 50 states, plus Washington D.C., Puerto Rico and Congress. We watch every bill that advances out of committee and explain what it would do. That rollout is still in progress, so coverage fills in jurisdiction by jurisdiction.

Our local government coverage began closer to home. We watch 30 city councils and county boards across 5 states, covering more than four million residents. These are the meetings shrinking local newsrooms can no longer sit through. We expand from there as we have the capacity to do it honestly.