Surveillance-tech report: Portland¶
Mentions current to 27 September 2026
This report covers meetings processed up to 2026-09-27. Anything newer shows up first in This Week in Surveillance.
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At a glance: Portland¶
30 mentions of surveillance technology in 22 Portland meetings, 2018–2026
Not the full history: transcripts begin 2014-10-10, but Portland's published video archive goes back to 2013-05-01. Meetings before 2014 are not yet transcribed, so this report cannot say what was discussed then. Older meetings are still being added.
This report collects every mention of surveillance technology found in Portland's recorded public meetings -- automatically transcribed, then keyword-scanned. Each mention below links straight to the moment in the source video, so anything here can be checked against the recording itself.
Start with Timeline to read the discussion in order, or Findings by topic to jump to one technology.
Mentions are found by keyword and are not individually verified. A mention means the words were spoken at a public meeting -- not that the town uses, bought, or approved the technology. Read the quote and watch the clip before drawing a conclusion.
Contents¶
- Mentions by topic: first seen / most recent
- Timeline
- Findings by topic
- Agenda/minutes mentions (unreviewed -- live keyword scan, no human review queue yet)
- How this report was built
- Coverage status
- Registered meeting bodies
- Agenda/minutes coverage
- Research log
- Gaps and caveats
- Get the full transcripts
Mentions by topic: first seen / most recent¶
| Topic | Mentions | Meetings | First seen | Most recent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ALPR / Flock | 1 | 1 | 2026-02-18 | 2026-02-18 |
| Drones | 27 | 20 | 2018-10-03 | 2026-02-26 |
| Predictive policing | 1 | 1 | 2019-12-18 | 2019-12-18 |
| General surveillance | 1 | 1 | 2020-04-27 | 2020-04-27 |
Timeline¶
22 meetings surfaced a finding (22 dated, spanning 2018-10-03 to 2026-02-26; 0 of unknown date, listed last). Newest first.
No meetings with a mention in the 30 days before 2026-09-27. The most recent was 2026-02-26.
Earlier meetings (22)
2026-02-26 -- Board of Education
Town of Portland Podcast | TOP & BOE Joint Episode | Ep 75 | February 26, 2026 (topics: drone)
droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...about what this will become. you you'll have to talk to Dylan. Maybe you can put the drone up and take some pictures of that. >> We did that. I got lots of video....
2026-02-18 -- Board of Selectmen
Board of Selectmen Meeting 2/18/2026 (topics: alpr)
alpr_flockWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...>> Do you let people know uh the ones that people are watching what LPRs are? >> License plate reader cameras. >> Yeah. I'm sorry. So, we have a set we have three sets of those, three...
2025-05-01 -- Strategic Capital Improvements Committee
Strategic Capital Improvements Committee 5/1/2025 (topics: drone)
droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...know he was using the 30,000 elevation. Well, now I need him to dial it down to, you know, drone. We got to make sure and I respect that you respect his numbers, but I trust verify. I just want to see...
2024-08-08 -- Planning and Zoning Commission
Planning and Zoning Special Meeting 8/8/24 (topics: drone)
droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...Bridge gentle River and the expansive Horizon of Rolling Hills slide please these are drone photos taken at the proposed view from a new restaurant at building a slide...
2024-05-23 -- Planning and Zoning Commission
Portland Planning and Zoning Special Meeting 5/23/24 (topics: drone)
droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...residential as far as the addition of two more floors well I understand a chef came by flew a drone and said yes I want to have a a restaurant on this level okay is going to be four stories so okay...
2024-05-08 -- Planning and Zoning Commission
Portland Planning and Zoning Special Meeting 5/8/24 (topics: drone)
droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...expansion expansive Horizon of Rolling Hills next image please these are drone photos taken at the proposed view from a new restaurant next image...
2024-05-01 -- Board of Selectmen
Board of Selectmen | Regular Meeting | Portland, CT | 05/01/2024 (topics: drone)
droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...last Friday they at no cost to the town hired or allowed us to use their their drone team and they sent a drone team out and took some really stunning videos and footage of the property not just...
2022-09-07 -- Town Meeting
Board of Selectmen | Town Meeting | Portland, CT | 9/7/22 (topics: drone)
droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...passive view of the water and we'll keep an actual this to me was the best drone shot um I don't know if you got them all Ryan I did yeah no I like this yeah yeah this...
2022-09-01 -- Planning and Zoning Commission
Planning and Zoning | Public Hearing| Portland, CT | 9/1/22 (topics: drone)
droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...to be good to to account have thought of for service how about drone deliveries i'm sure i'm sure amazon will get on that when they when they can...
2021-03-16 -- Board of Selectmen
Portland, CT | Board of Selectmen | Public Hearing 3/16/21 (topics: drone)
droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...from his uh i guess he took it from a camera high up in the sky known as a drone and it really is a nice picture of portland our river and i thought it was a nice way to...
2020-05-26 -- Board of Selectmen
Portland CT | Board of Selectmen | Budget Deliberation Workshop | 05-26-20 (topics: drone)
droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...as well as the band and the performance that they had I hope that you're able to look at it some of the drone footage that was also done by a Portland high school student and the work that Dave...
2020-05-06 -- Board of Selectmen
Portland CT | Board of Selectmen | Financial Meeting | 05-06-20 (topics: drone)
droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...they can work towards getting their signage done on the entry the Jim Jim trip our captain of our drone and I went out to the park this past weekend and did get some new drone shots and...droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...trip our captain of our drone and I went out to the park this past weekend and did get some new drone shots and hopefully in the next few days we'll get them up specifically about the fitness...
2020-04-27 -- Board of Selectmen
Portland CT | Board of Selectmen | Special Meeting | 04-27-20 (topics: surveillance_general)
surveillance_generalWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...radios interior deadzone designs at three different schools four different schools surveillance camera appraised at the high school middle school complex kill receive on repaired doors...
2020-02-19 -- Board of Selectmen
Portland CT | Board of Selectmen | Regular Meeting | 02-19-20 (topics: drone)
droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...so it's very good news right and I will be Jim when I went out we got some new drone shots so I'm planning to put together some sort of write-up to put on Facebook as well as give to Nate so it...
2019-12-18 -- Board of Selectmen
Portland CT | Board of Selectmen | 12-18-19 (topics: drone, predictive_policing)
predictive_policingWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...their addiction that night right and they this the skating area not surely all silver here in Gotham so we gave the Town Hall where we actually right...droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...I'm waiting for the weather and regret and first snow not to be on the ground so we could make one more drone run around the park to get close-up shots of the playground and the splash pad to be...droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...probably just put another posting update people so I'm not gonna wait forever for for us to be able to put a drone up so notice some of the other things that are on the other just to be more thorough...
2019-12-04 -- Board of Selectmen
Portland CT | Board of Selectmen | 12-04-19 (topics: drone)
droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...actually the intent was to get some shots of it in the last week but unfortunately winds prevented drone flight that moved into snow so hopefully I'll be able to be able to work together...droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...pretty much tint all outside all the facilities will look complete when we hopefully get some drone shots of the completed park facilities and and I know would work working with the engineering...
2019-10-17 -- Board of Selectmen
Portland CT | Board of Selectmen | 10-17-19 (topics: drone)
droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...see the fence the posts for the fencing that's gonna be getting put in place that's yes yes I can I can fly a drone I can't do CGI but this is this is what it was struck me so I I wanted to take this...droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...have to do something that's sort of in lapses love to strategize on that they'll send his drone up yes yes yeah we were talking about that today about the fact that you know the water line...
2019-09-18 -- Board of Selectmen
Portland CT | Board of Selectmen | 09-18-19 (topics: drone)
droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...even a magazine or whatever go there and we dig it up together maybe Jim complies drone over as well so we have some pictures taken but now there's interest in what's going on there people saw the...droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...we did whatever oh that's right yes okay Jim will be featured and he's going to have some drone pictures of the route 1775 park I have to double-check these six...droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...well we're going to us I'll speak with the owners of Elmcrest and Jim is going to try to fly the drone over that too so people be able to see what's going on there and we'll have an update hopefully...
2019-08-27 -- Board of Selectmen
Portland CT | Board of Selectmen | 08-27-19 | Public Hearing (topics: drone)
droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...that will be presenting information to us Jim Tripp Luqman Jim Tripp has provided for us a drone video and some pictures of the land Andy Ives from Langdon engineering is...droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...comments and questions for us as we proceed the next part of the presentation will be the drone video that Jim Tripp is going to present to us Jim...
2019-08-22 -- Board of Selectmen
Portland CT | Board of Selectmen | Public Hearing | 08-22-19 (topics: drone)
droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...pictures and information visual information from Jim trip Jim has done some drone video as well as photographs of the property we have Andy Ives from Langan who is the surveyor he has...
2019-06-19 -- Board of Selectmen
Portland CT | Board of Selectmen | 06-19-19 (topics: drone)
droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...our last few weeks ago with the committee and then Jim has great pictures he used his drone and get some great pictures Jim has some amazing pictures yeah I can pass these if you...
2018-10-03 -- Board of Selectmen
Portland, CT Board of Selectmen 10.3.18 (topics: drone)
droneWatch on YouTube ▸ > ...it's just the wait life too yes so we have had two entries for three years then we proposed drone up we rounded up with a positive six percent water customers we have to realize how...
Findings by topic¶
ai_data_fusion¶
(no findings)
alpr¶
- [2026-02-18] Board of Selectmen -- Board of Selectmen Meeting 2/18/2026
...>> Do you let people know uh the ones that people are watching what LPRs are? >> License plate reader cameras. >> Yeah. I'm sorry. So, we have a set we have three sets of those, three... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: alpr_flock, unreviewed)
biometrics_other¶
(no findings)
body_camera¶
(no findings)
cad¶
(no findings)
cell_site_sim¶
(no findings)
data_broker¶
(no findings)
doorbell_partnership¶
(no findings)
drone¶
-
[2026-02-26] Board of Education -- Town of Portland Podcast | TOP & BOE Joint Episode | Ep 75 | February 26, 2026
...about what this will become. you you'll have to talk to Dylan. Maybe you can put the drone up and take some pictures of that. >> We did that. I got lots of video.... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
-
[2025-05-01] Strategic Capital Improvements Committee -- Strategic Capital Improvements Committee 5/1/2025
...know he was using the 30,000 elevation. Well, now I need him to dial it down to, you know, drone. We got to make sure and I respect that you respect his numbers, but I trust verify. I just want to see... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
-
[2024-08-08] Planning and Zoning Commission -- Planning and Zoning Special Meeting 8/8/24
...Bridge gentle River and the expansive Horizon of Rolling Hills slide please these are drone photos taken at the proposed view from a new restaurant at building a slide... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
-
[2024-05-23] Planning and Zoning Commission -- Portland Planning and Zoning Special Meeting 5/23/24
...residential as far as the addition of two more floors well I understand a chef came by flew a drone and said yes I want to have a a restaurant on this level okay is going to be four stories so okay... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
-
[2024-05-08] Planning and Zoning Commission -- Portland Planning and Zoning Special Meeting 5/8/24
...expansion expansive Horizon of Rolling Hills next image please these are drone photos taken at the proposed view from a new restaurant next image... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
-
[2024-05-01] Board of Selectmen -- Board of Selectmen | Regular Meeting | Portland, CT | 05/01/2024
...last Friday they at no cost to the town hired or allowed us to use their their drone team and they sent a drone team out and took some really stunning videos and footage of the property not just... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
-
[2022-09-07] Town Meeting -- Board of Selectmen | Town Meeting | Portland, CT | 9/7/22
...passive view of the water and we'll keep an actual this to me was the best drone shot um I don't know if you got them all Ryan I did yeah no I like this yeah yeah this... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
-
[2022-09-01] Planning and Zoning Commission -- Planning and Zoning | Public Hearing| Portland, CT | 9/1/22
...to be good to to account have thought of for service how about drone deliveries i'm sure i'm sure amazon will get on that when they when they can... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
-
[2021-03-16] Board of Selectmen -- Portland, CT | Board of Selectmen | Public Hearing 3/16/21
...from his uh i guess he took it from a camera high up in the sky known as a drone and it really is a nice picture of portland our river and i thought it was a nice way to... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
-
[2020-05-26] Board of Selectmen -- Portland CT | Board of Selectmen | Budget Deliberation Workshop | 05-26-20
...as well as the band and the performance that they had I hope that you're able to look at it some of the drone footage that was also done by a Portland high school student and the work that Dave... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
-
[2020-05-06] Board of Selectmen -- Portland CT | Board of Selectmen | Financial Meeting | 05-06-20
...trip our captain of our drone and I went out to the park this past weekend and did get some new drone shots and hopefully in the next few days we'll get them up specifically about the fitness... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
-
[2020-05-06] Board of Selectmen -- Portland CT | Board of Selectmen | Financial Meeting | 05-06-20
...they can work towards getting their signage done on the entry the Jim Jim trip our captain of our drone and I went out to the park this past weekend and did get some new drone shots and... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
-
[2020-02-19] Board of Selectmen -- Portland CT | Board of Selectmen | Regular Meeting | 02-19-20
...so it's very good news right and I will be Jim when I went out we got some new drone shots so I'm planning to put together some sort of write-up to put on Facebook as well as give to Nate so it... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
-
[2019-12-18] Board of Selectmen -- Portland CT | Board of Selectmen | 12-18-19
...I'm waiting for the weather and regret and first snow not to be on the ground so we could make one more drone run around the park to get close-up shots of the playground and the splash pad to be... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
-
[2019-12-18] Board of Selectmen -- Portland CT | Board of Selectmen | 12-18-19
...probably just put another posting update people so I'm not gonna wait forever for for us to be able to put a drone up so notice some of the other things that are on the other just to be more thorough... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
-
[2019-12-04] Board of Selectmen -- Portland CT | Board of Selectmen | 12-04-19
...pretty much tint all outside all the facilities will look complete when we hopefully get some drone shots of the completed park facilities and and I know would work working with the engineering... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
-
[2019-12-04] Board of Selectmen -- Portland CT | Board of Selectmen | 12-04-19
...actually the intent was to get some shots of it in the last week but unfortunately winds prevented drone flight that moved into snow so hopefully I'll be able to be able to work together... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
-
[2019-10-17] Board of Selectmen -- Portland CT | Board of Selectmen | 10-17-19
...have to do something that's sort of in lapses love to strategize on that they'll send his drone up yes yes yeah we were talking about that today about the fact that you know the water line... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
-
[2019-10-17] Board of Selectmen -- Portland CT | Board of Selectmen | 10-17-19
...see the fence the posts for the fencing that's gonna be getting put in place that's yes yes I can I can fly a drone I can't do CGI but this is this is what it was struck me so I I wanted to take this... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
-
[2019-09-18] Board of Selectmen -- Portland CT | Board of Selectmen | 09-18-19
...well we're going to us I'll speak with the owners of Elmcrest and Jim is going to try to fly the drone over that too so people be able to see what's going on there and we'll have an update hopefully... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
-
[2019-09-18] Board of Selectmen -- Portland CT | Board of Selectmen | 09-18-19
...we did whatever oh that's right yes okay Jim will be featured and he's going to have some drone pictures of the route 1775 park I have to double-check these six... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
-
[2019-09-18] Board of Selectmen -- Portland CT | Board of Selectmen | 09-18-19
...even a magazine or whatever go there and we dig it up together maybe Jim complies drone over as well so we have some pictures taken but now there's interest in what's going on there people saw the... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
-
[2019-08-27] Board of Selectmen -- Portland CT | Board of Selectmen | 08-27-19 | Public Hearing
...comments and questions for us as we proceed the next part of the presentation will be the drone video that Jim Tripp is going to present to us Jim... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
-
[2019-08-27] Board of Selectmen -- Portland CT | Board of Selectmen | 08-27-19 | Public Hearing
...that will be presenting information to us Jim Tripp Luqman Jim Tripp has provided for us a drone video and some pictures of the land Andy Ives from Langdon engineering is... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
-
[2019-08-22] Board of Selectmen -- Portland CT | Board of Selectmen | Public Hearing | 08-22-19
...pictures and information visual information from Jim trip Jim has done some drone video as well as photographs of the property we have Andy Ives from Langan who is the surveyor he has... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
-
[2019-06-19] Board of Selectmen -- Portland CT | Board of Selectmen | 06-19-19
...our last few weeks ago with the committee and then Jim has great pictures he used his drone and get some great pictures Jim has some amazing pictures yeah I can pass these if you... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
-
[2018-10-03] Board of Selectmen -- Portland, CT Board of Selectmen 10.3.18
...it's just the wait life too yes so we have had two entries for three years then we proposed drone up we rounded up with a positive six percent water customers we have to realize how... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: drone, unreviewed)
facial_recognition¶
(no findings)
gunshot_detection¶
(no findings)
mobile_forensics¶
(no findings)
osint_social_monitor¶
(no findings)
predictive_policing¶
- [2019-12-18] Board of Selectmen -- Portland CT | Board of Selectmen | 12-18-19
...their addiction that night right and they this the skating area not surely all silver here in Gotham so we gave the Town Hall where we actually right... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: predictive_policing, unreviewed)
purchasing_broker¶
(no findings)
rtcc¶
(no findings)
surveillance_general¶
- [2020-04-27] Board of Selectmen -- Portland CT | Board of Selectmen | Special Meeting | 04-27-20
...radios interior deadzone designs at three different schools four different schools surveillance camera appraised at the high school middle school complex kill receive on repaired doors... Watch on YouTube ▸ (term: surveillance_general, unreviewed)
undercover_tools¶
(no findings)
vehicle_forensics¶
(no findings)
video_analytics¶
(no findings)
Agenda/minutes mentions (unreviewed -- live keyword scan, no human review queue yet)¶
ai_data_fusion¶
(no mentions)
alpr¶
(no mentions)
biometrics_other¶
(no mentions)
body_camera¶
(no mentions)
cad¶
(no mentions)
cell_site_sim¶
(no mentions)
data_broker¶
(no mentions)
doorbell_partnership¶
(no mentions)
drone¶
(no mentions)
facial_recognition¶
(no mentions)
gunshot_detection¶
(no mentions)
mobile_forensics¶
(no mentions)
osint_social_monitor¶
(no mentions)
predictive_policing¶
(no mentions)
purchasing_broker¶
(no mentions)
rtcc¶
(no mentions)
surveillance_general¶
(no mentions)
undercover_tools¶
(no mentions)
vehicle_forensics¶
(no mentions)
video_analytics¶
(no mentions)
How this report was built¶
Everything below describes the corpus and its limits, rather than what was found in it.
Coverage status¶
- Channels registered: 1
- Active meeting bodies: 10
- Videos registered: 477 (fetched: 317, no captions: 9)
- Date range covered: 2013-05-01 to 2026-09-16 (all 477 videos dated)
Channels¶
| display_name | channel_id | handle |
|---|---|---|
| Town of Portland (CT) | portland_ct | @TownofPortland |
Tab crawl history¶
| channel_id | tab | last_crawled_at | video_count |
|---|---|---|---|
| portland_ct | streams | 2026-09-27 14:22:59.900777 | 232 |
| portland_ct | videos | 2026-09-27 14:22:56.172442 | 687 |
Registered meeting bodies¶
| body_name | category | active | video_count |
|---|---|---|---|
| Strategic Capital Improvements Committee | budget_finance | True | 13 |
| Board of Selectmen | council | True | 341 |
| Board of Education | education | True | 11 |
| School Building Committee | education | True | 4 |
| Board of Assessment Review (BAR Committee) | other | True | 1 |
| Economic Development Commission | other | True | 4 |
| Land and Building Usage Assessment Committee | other | True | 8 |
| Planning and Zoning Commission | other | True | 43 |
| Town Meeting | other | True | 49 |
| Zoning Board of Appeals | other | True | 3 |
Agenda/minutes coverage¶
- Agenda sources registered: 1
- Documents registered: 0 (fetched: 0)
- Date range covered: no agenda document on file carries a parseable date yet
Agenda sources¶
| source_id | platform | base_url | status |
|---|---|---|---|
| portland_custom | custom | https://www.portlandct.org/agendas-minutes | confirmed |
Research log¶
| logged_at | field_name | new_value | source | by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-27 16:02:04.277917 | agenda_platform_found | portlandct.org/agendas-minutes -- custom CMS, no CivicPlus / CivicClerk / Granicus / AgendaCenter branding found in the page source. | curl of portlandct.org, 2026-08-27 | claude |
| 2026-08-27 16:02:04.277917 | channel_found | portland_ct -- "Town of Portland" (UCTtakKUX2S24EfX_t9MdAFw, @TownofPortland), confirmed via direct yt-dlp probe AND independently corroborated by portlandct.org, which links youtube.com/@TownofPortland from its own home page. 685 /videos + 229 /streams = 914 titles, both tabs crawled. | yt-dlp ytsearch12:"Portland Connecticut Board of Selectmen meeting" + direct probe + curl of portlandct.org, 2026-08-27 | claude |
| 2026-08-27 16:02:04.277917 | out_of_state_collision_ruled_out | Portland OR and Portland ME are both large collisions. Ruled out four ways: (1) portlandct.org -- the Town of Portland CT's own site -- links this exact channel; (2) 84+ titles read literally "Portland CT Board of Selectmen"; (3) the governing body is a Board of Selectmen, a New England town form -- Portland OR has a City Council, Portland ME a City Council/Mayor, neither has selectmen; (4) corpus titles include "Portland, Connecticut Timeline: 200 Millions Years Ago to Today" and "Portland High School (CT) Marching Band". | curl of portlandct.org + full 914-title corpus inspection, 2026-08-27 | claude |
| 2026-08-27 16:02:04.277917 | patterns_validated_from_real_titles | COMBINED 473/914 (51.8%) across BOTH tabs (/videos 685, /streams 229). The 441 unmatched titles are correctly non-meeting content: "Town of Portland Podcast" (78 eps), "Portland Public Schools Podcast" (44 eps), "Voices of Portland" oral histories, master-plan workshops, water-utility PSAs. Board of Selectmen accounts for 373 of the 473 matches. Board of Finance, Inland Wetlands and WPCA all matched ZERO titles and were deliberately NOT registered, per the a seed script convention of not seeding zero-coverage bodies. | yt-dlp --flat-playlist crawls of both tabs + Python pattern validation, 2026-08-27 | claude |
Gaps and caveats¶
Videos with no captions available (9 shown, max 25)¶
| title | upload_date |
|---|---|
| Planning & Zoning Commission Special Meeting 8/27/2026 | 2026-08-27 |
| Board of Selectman Special Meeting 7/23/24 | 2024-07-23 |
| Board of Selectmen | Town Meeting |
| Board of Selectmen | Public Hearing |
| Board of Selectmen | Public Hearing |
| Board of Selectmen | Portland, CT |
| Board of Selectmen | Portland, CT |
| Portland, CT | Board of Selectmen |
| Portland, CT Board of Selectmen 9.5.18 | 2018-09-05 |
Tabs never crawled¶
(none)
Get the full transcripts¶
Download Portland's meeting transcripts (.zip)
Every finding in this report is a keyword match against exactly these files. Download them to check a quote in its full context, or to search for something this report's keyword list does not cover.
What's inside: one plain-text .txt file per meeting, named <date>_<video-id>_<meeting-title>.txt, plus a MANIFEST.txt giving the date range and how much of the town's video archive is transcribed.
How to use it
unzip portland-meeting-transcripts.zip -d portland
cd portland
# every meeting that mentions a term, with the surrounding line
grep -rin "license plate" .
# just the meeting dates, from the filenames
grep -ril "flock" . | sort
The filename's leading date is the meeting date, so a hit tells you which meeting to watch. Find that meeting in the Timeline below for a direct, timestamped link to that moment in the video.
These are machine-generated captions, not certified minutes. Expect mis-heard names and technical terms, and quote the video rather than the transcript when accuracy matters.
Generated 2026-09-27T15:43:34 from Portland's meeting transcripts and agenda documents. Home addresses spoken during public comment are redacted; see the archive MANIFEST for what that means.
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