Issue 001 · Creator wire
Live for early-access members

The local news wire,
rebuilt for creators.

Real-time local news and blotter feeds from all 50 states, packaged for creators. Placeline pulls from thousands of municipal agency sites, the DOJ Open Data Program, and arrest- and criminal-records APIs, then normalizes each item into story leads, short-form blurbs, and trend signals sized for Substack, social, and independent journalist outlets.

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Live wire
CA · OR · WA · NV · AZ Updated every 60s
  • JUST IN
    Oakland, CA    2m

    Port authority board advances container-terminal lease vote for Friday

    municipal · public meetingSource
  • TREND
    Eugene, OR    17m

    Three counties report weekend wildfire-pm2.5 above federal thresholds

    EPA · county sensorsSource
  • WIRE
    Spokane, WA    38m

    City council postpones short-term-rental cap hearing to next session

    council agenda · item 7BSource
  • WIRE
    Reno, NV    1h

    Washoe sheriff releases statement on North Valleys arrest log policy

    sheriff · press releaseSource

Demo feed · sample items sourced from public municipal records. Live wire for early-access members refreshes every 60 seconds.

3,400+Municipal & agency sources polled
50U.S. states covered
~60sWire-to-publish latency
3-in-10U.S. adults who get news from creators daily

What’s in the wire

Four reasons Placeline is the newsroom-shaped feed.

Three-in-ten U.S. adults already get local news from creators on social platforms and Substack. Nearly four-in-ten under-30s now get news from influencers. Placeline is the supply chain that sits behind that audience.

  • Pillar 013 formats · 1 source

    Normalized for publish, not just ingest

    Each item lands in three ready-to-cut shapes: a story lead, a short-form blurb, and a regional trend signal — sized for Substack, social, and independent outlets.

  • Pillar 02privacy by default

    State-aware privacy, set before you ship

    Source-attribution defaults, juvenile-sealed redaction, and a built-in defamation-risk checklist let you publish arrest-record items without a six-step scrubbing flow.

  • Pillar 03auditable by design

    Provenance baked in, not bolted on

    Every carry-forward link points back to the originating agency PDF, press release, or structured blotter export — your readers see the chain, not just the headline.

  • Pillar 04one wire · 50 states

    A single wire instead of forty browser tabs

    Replace hours of county-site scraping and beat-policing with one vetted feed that has already done the deduping, the timestamping, and the municipal-agency normalization.

Built around the riskiest item on the wire

Arrest-record items ship with a receipt chain, not just a headline.

Republishing a blotter item is a defamation decision. Placeline treats it like one — state-aware privacy filters, juvenile-sealed redaction, and source-attribution defaults are on before you ever see the item.

  • State-aware privacy filters are calibrated to the publishing state, not the source state.
  • Juvenile-sealed records are redacted in source — you never receive them.
  • Every item carries the originating agency PDF, press release, or structured blotter export URL by default.

Provenance chain

Sample
  1. 01
    SystemDOJ Open Data export, refreshed 14m ago
  2. 02
    NormalizerStory lead drafted, juvenile fields redacted
  3. 03
    Attribution layerSource URL, agency, timestamp attached
  4. 04
    YouItem arrives in Slack / CMS / webhook

From poll to publish

Three steps. No browser tabs. No beat-policing.

Replace hours of county-site scraping with one vetted feed. Each step is already deduplicated, timestamped, and municipal-agency-normalized.

Step 01

Pick your footprint

Choose states, counties, and source tiers. Polls run on the schedule your beat requires — every minute, every hour, or once a day.

Step 02

Get a normalized feed

Story leads, blurbs, and trend signals drop into your CMS, Slack, webhook, or API endpoint — already time-stamped, attributed, and deduped.

Step 03

Publish with the receipts

Each item carries the source PDF, press release, or blotter export it came from, so your readers — and your editors — can verify in one click.

Pricing

Per-seat, tiered the way creators already buy.

The same proven adjacent SaaS pattern you already see across the creator-tool shelf — solo creators pay $29/month, studios pay $129/month, networks negotiate volume.

Solo
$29/ per month

One creator, one newsletter, two states. The fastest way to test whether Placeline fits your beat.

  • 2 states · unlimited items
  • Story leads + short-form blurbs
  • Email + RSS delivery
  • Source-attribution defaults
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Most popular
Studio
$129/ per month

For Substack writers and creator teams who already publish daily. Most newsroom-shaped plan on the platform today.

  • All 50 states · unlimited items
  • Story leads, blurbs, and trend signals
  • Slack, webhook, and CMS integrations
  • State-aware privacy filters
  • Juvenile-sealed redaction
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Network
Custom/ volume rate

For networks, newsrooms, and creator agencies. Includes API access, custom source tiers, and an SLA on wire latency.

  • API access with rate limits to fit your usage
  • Custom municipal-source onboarding
  • Slack-shared channel + audit log
  • Dedicated editorial-support line
  • SLA on wire latency
Talk to us

Editorial standards

Questions creators usually ask before they switch.

Sourced from the most-asked questions on the early-access wait list. If yours isn’t here, write to placeline-2@polsia.app.

  • Where does Placeline pull from?

    Placeline polls municipal agency websites, the DOJ Open Data Program, and arrest- and criminal-records APIs across all 50 states. Each item carries the originating source so you can verify before you publish.

  • How is this different from AP, Reuters, or NewsData.io?

    Those services handle broad, mostly national coverage. Placeline sits on the creator side of the news supply chain — pulling from thousands of municipal agency sites and blotter exports, normalizing each item at the story level, and shipping it in publish-ready shapes rather than raw event records.

  • Is Placeline a crime mapping tool?

    No. Consumer tools like CrimeMapping and the LexisNexis Community Crime Map are built for residents and law enforcement. Placeline is built for content creators — the consumers are Substack writers, social-news publishers, and independent journalists who repackage local news for an audience.

  • How does Placeline manage defamation and reputational risk?

    State-aware privacy filters, juvenile-sealed redaction, and source-attribution defaults are on by default. Every story lead ships with the originating source attached, so you can publish arrest-record items with a receipt chain in place.

  • Who is Placeline for?

    Substack writers, social-news creators, independent journalist outlets, and the agencies that produce for them — anyone whose beat depends on a steady stream of vetted local news and blotter items that are ready to publish rather than ingest.

Early access is open for the next cohort

One vetted feed. All fifty states. Zero tab-switching.

Placeline is the creator-grade insider platform for real-time local news and police-blotter stories. Drop your email and we’ll send the early-access brief — including the source tiers open in your first 30 days.

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