oregon-stories · Civic Corpus Platform
Oregon, measured from its own records
Each story below derives every number, at build time, from the platform's mirrored public records — and links the exact artifacts and their hashes so anyone can check. Non-authoritative throughout; the records themselves live with the state.
Across the platform · 7
Stories that only exist because the corpora join — each one walks at least two of them.
Agency profiles
189 agency profiles — rules, spending, performance, and audits joined on one registry
RegulatoryAuditsKPM
8 cited source artifact(s), hashes on the page.
County code cites dead law
808 of 8,723 county ORS citations (9%) point at renumbered or repealed law
CountiesRegulatory
3 cited source artifact(s), hashes on the page.
Documents that exist only as pictures
13 state instruments + 598 county documents have no machine-readable official text — beside the ADA web rule, cited
RegulatoryCounties
3 cited source artifact(s), hashes on the page.
The federal ceiling
Oregon rules claim federal authority 916 times across 1,271 targets; the platform resolves 1
RegulatoryFederal
2 cited source artifact(s), hashes on the page.
Found by meaning
only 14% of audits' nearest-by-meaning law is cited — the semantic index finds what citations don't name
AuditsRegulatory
1 cited source artifact(s), hashes on the page.
Audits and the scorecards
43% of audits land on their own agency's scorecard by meaning alone (chance: 1.2%) — and the scorecards they land on can be read beside them
AuditsKPM
1 cited source artifact(s), hashes on the page.
One thread, end to end: PERS
PERS walked across five corpora: 105 statute citations, 271 rules, one published instrument, real dollars, and back to 45 audits
RegulatoryLegislatureBudgetKPMAudits
5 cited source artifact(s), hashes on the page.
Executive Regulatory Frameworks · 12
Rules older than their statutes
4,603 rules are 10+ years behind their statute — mechanically measured, 11,249 lag at all
Regulatory
1 cited source artifact(s), hashes on the page.
The copy-paste rulebook
654 rules form 239 near-verbatim families; the widest text spans 28 agencies' chapters
Regulatory
1 cited source artifact(s), hashes on the page.
The map of stale law
23,861 rules mapped by meaning, shaded by staleness — the 4,603 left-behind rules pool in visible domains
Regulatory
2 cited source artifact(s), hashes on the page.
Far from their authority
24,049 rule↔authority pairs scored by meaning; the far tail becomes a human review queue
Regulatory
1 cited source artifact(s), hashes on the page.
The agency authority graph
Agencies linked by the ORS chapters their rules jointly implement
Regulatory
Renders on its corpus page for now — port pending.
The authority explorer
Walk any document's authority neighborhood, up and down
Regulatory
Renders on its corpus page for now — port pending.
Statutes, operationalized
Which ORS chapters spawn the most rules — and which lie dormant
Regulatory
Renders on its corpus page for now — port pending.
The policy documentation gap
93 agencies write rules; 9 have internal policy anywhere public
Regulatory
Renders on its corpus page for now — port pending.
The topic map
Every document in the regulatory corpus, mapped by meaning
Regulatory
Renders on its corpus page for now — port pending.
Regulatory freshness
Rules lagging the statutes they implement, by agency
Regulatory
Renders on its corpus page for now — port pending.
Policy age
Time since last touch, against a two-year review cadence
Regulatory
Renders on its corpus page for now — port pending.
Conflict candidates (pilot)
1,398 candidate statute/rule inconsistencies across 172 ORS chapters — every one awaiting human review, none a finding
Regulatory
1 cited source artifact(s), hashes on the page.
The Legislature · 2
What the Legislature amends
Which ORS chapters each session's measures touch
Legislature
Renders on its corpus page for now — port pending.
The measures topic map
Enrolled measures, mapped by meaning
Legislature
Renders on its corpus page for now — port pending.
Budget & Expenditure · 3
Where appropriations actually land
474 appropriation→spending joins; 0 bills name nobody; every non-join carries a stated reason
Budget
2 cited source artifact(s), hashes on the page.
The Legislature's named line items
1,812 legislature-named line items across 11 sessions — $88.3B nominal, none human-reviewed
Budget
1 cited source artifact(s), hashes on the page.
Vendor concentration
top-20 payees absorb a median 88% of an agency's recorded spending (FY2025) — a floor, not an estimate
Budget
1 cited source artifact(s), hashes on the page.
Audits · 1
The audit mix, charted
Performance audits fell four-fold while financial audits held flat
Audits
Renders on its corpus page for now — port pending.
Key Performance Measures · 1
What agencies told the Legislature
~half of directional KPM measure-years met their own target; 671 reported numbers moved between reports
KPM
1 cited source artifact(s), hashes on the page.
Counties · 1
Can you read your county's law?
26 of 36 county codes mirrored (90% of Oregonians); 1 publish none; 9 block access
Counties
2 cited source artifact(s), hashes on the page.
Read this before quoting the chart
Stories state what the records show, never why — cause is not in the data. Every page carries its own caveats; read them before quoting a figure.