How to use this site — and how to correct it
Officium publishes public records and automated observations drawn from them. This page explains what that does and does not mean, and how to reach us if something here is wrong.
Corrections and removal requests
If something on this site is wrong about you — a record attributed to the wrong person, a flag drawn from a bad match, a figure that does not match your filing — tell us and we will look at it. We would rather fix an error than defend it.
Email corrections@officium.vote with the page address and what is wrong. If you can point to the underlying filing, that speeds things up, but it is not required to get a look.
- We aim to acknowledge within a few days.
- Anything we cannot verify against a public record comes down while we check, rather than staying up while we argue.
- When we correct something, we say so — see the repair notes published alongside the data on the data catalog.
What this site is
Officium collects public records about members of Congress — stock-trade disclosures, financial disclosures, campaign finance filings, lobbying and foreign-agent registrations, committee assignments, votes, and travel — and shows them in one place. It also runs software that looks for overlaps between them, which we call research flags.
A research flag is not an accusation. It means two records line up in a way that might be worth a look. Our software cannot know intent, is not a court, and is sometimes wrong. Nothing on this site is a finding of wrongdoing, and it should not be read or reported as one. Verify against the original filings, which we link wherever we have them.
Nothing here is legal, financial, or investment advice.
Where the data comes from
Most of it is U.S. government records, which carry no copyright. Two sources are not: stock-trade data is compiled by QuiverQuant, and roster and vote data come from GovTrack. Those are third-party products with their own terms, and they are not ours to relicense — if you want to reuse anything derived from them, check with them first.
We do not republish street addresses for individuals, and we link to the official record instead. Full source-by-source detail is on the data catalog and in how this works.
Privacy
There are no accounts, and nothing here asks who you are. We do not run advertising or third-party analytics, and we do not sell or share anything about visitors.
Your watchlist and private notes are stored in your own browser, not on our servers. They never leave your device, we cannot read them, and clearing your browser data deletes them.
Using the site
Use it for research, reporting, and civic work. Please do not present a research flag as a proven finding, and please cite the original record rather than us when you are making a factual claim about someone.
The site is provided as is, without warranty. We work hard on accuracy and publish our gaps openly, but we cannot guarantee that every record is complete or current.
This page is written in plain English rather than legal boilerplate, and it is not a substitute for advice from a lawyer.