“Information is the currency of democracy. –Thomas Jefferson
Our democratic institutions rely on citizens, businesses, and other organizations that are willing to communicate needs and opinions to their elected officials. But do you know who all of your legislators are or how to reach them? I don’t either. Cicero is designed to help. It is a Web API (application programming interface) that enables you to add legislator lookup capabilities to any web site or software application. It is a cost-effective and precise way to deliver this information, including maps showing the district boundaries. In a nutshell, it is a web-based, easily integratable elected official lookup for local, state, and national information. It simply matches addresses with the elected officials who represent these addresses.
We built Cicero in early 2006 to support local arts advocacy in Pennsylvania. By fall of that year, we offered a national service covering 40 cities. We are thrilled to announce the recent release of several new, comprehensive sets of data: In addition to city council districts for more than 60 cities we now offer district lookup and legislator contact data (district number, address(es), phone number(s), email, party, etc.) for all U.S. state and federal legislative districts. We continue to update Cicero as elections take place, legislators are replaced and regions go through the process of redistricting. You can try Cicero here.
We created Cicero with the intention of giving advocacy groups, non-profits, foundations and politically active individuals access to accurate local, state, and national elected official contact information, quickly and all in one central location vs. through multiple online resources. Organizations can subscribe to a web-service API that seamlessly interfaces with their constituents’ databases for them to provide their own stakeholders with a customizable array of contact information for key political decision-makers across the United States. This information is used to empower citizens to engage with their elected officials and thereby influence the outcome of decisions. Cicero can provide you with the local legislator data that you need to affect policy. And it now has state, national, and school districts information on top of that!
Visit the Cicero website for more information, as well as updated lists of available data.
U.S. school district lookup as well as Canada and Australia legislative districts, coming soon!
