# Open Council Information

Agendas, motions, proposals and minutes from hundreds of municipalities in one searchable index, with an open search API.

- Publisher: Open Raadsinformatie, Open State Foundation, Vereniging van Nederlandse Gemeenten
- Area: Netherlands · Finest detail: municipality
- Period: verschilt per gemeente · Refreshed: daily
- Access: Open · Licence: Openbaar
- Join keys: gemeentecode (GM), vergaderdatum
- Status: grijs
- URL: https://openraadsinformatie.nl

## What can you do with it?
- **What did the council say about this?.** Search a topic across all municipalities and see where it comes up.
- **Tracking motions.** Collect motions on a topic and see which parties file them.

## Interesting combinations
- Why did this foundation get a grant? → [ams-subsidies](https://www.opendataindex.nl/en/bron/ams-subsidies.md) via naam organisatie. Search the name in council papers around the decision date.

## Similar sources
- [open-overheid-woo](https://www.opendataindex.nl/en/bron/open-overheid-woo.md): FOI decisions and other released documents.