FirmSide AI · Civic Analytics Lab

Delaware's public record, organized so every citizen can use it.

A growing suite of dashboards on how Delaware spends, performs, votes, and serves its people — from federal dollars and the state checkbook to schools, water, childcare, and the voting record of every legislator. Every number traces to a public source, nothing is editorialized, and the work is nonpartisan. We show you the data; you decide.

Who's on the Ballot

DE Dept. of Elections · 2026 candidates

The standardized candidate record for Delaware's 2026 U.S. House race: official filing, congressional votes, campaign finance, and quoted positions, each field linked to its primary source.

Certified filings Roll-call votes FEC finance

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School Report Card

DE Dept. of Education · School outcomes

Proficiency, graduation, chronic absenteeism, and enrollment for the state and all 41 districts and charter networks — all students, most recent year, straight from the public report-card data.

DE Report Card 41 LEAs Smarter Balanced

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Is My Water Safe?

EPA SDWIS · Drinking water

Drinking-water violations for every Delaware public water system, health-based violations flagged, with each system's current compliance status and a link to its EPA report.

EPA SDWIS 1,344 systems health-based flagged

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Where Delaware's Money Goes

Online Checkbook · State spending

Every dollar the State of Delaware actually disbursed in the latest complete fiscal year — by department, category, and vendor. $16.9B across 1.55 million transactions.

DE Online Checkbook FY2025 transaction-level

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Federal Dollars into Delaware

USAspending.gov · Federal awards

Every federal grant, contract, and loan with work performed in Delaware — by agency, recipient, and type. 17,988 awards in FY2024, from the public federal spending record.

USAspending.gov FY2024 place-of-performance

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Childcare Access

Office of Child Care Licensing + Census

Every licensed childcare provider, its capacity and quality rating, and the number of young children per licensed slot — county by county across Delaware.

1,198 providers FirstMap + Census children-per-slot

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How Your Legislator Votes

Open States · Legislative votes

The recorded roll-call voting record of every member of the Delaware General Assembly this session — votes cast, yes and no, and participation. No scoring, no party colors.

Open States session 153 65 legislators

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Federal Campaign Finance

FEC · Money raised and spent

What Delaware's U.S. House and Senate candidates have raised and spent this cycle, as reported to the Federal Election Commission. Raw filed numbers, no ranking, no party colors.

FEC OpenFEC 2026 cycle 19 candidates

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Tracking Senate Bill 272

Open States · Project labor agreements

Follow a single bill as it moves — current status, sponsors, the full action timeline, and how each member voted on the record. First instance: SB 272, project labor agreements for school construction.

Open States SB 272 updated daily

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Delaware Grocery Initiative Grants

DSB · SB 254 · food-access map

The Delaware Grocery Initiative's grant awards, mapped alongside food-access indicators — USDA and SB 254 food-desert tracts, SNAP retailers, and DART transit. Grant amounts and locations, no verdict.

DSB Winner Summary SB 254 Cycle 5 · 28 orgs

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About this site

First State Lens is a Delaware civic outcomes platform. Each dashboard tracks a specific legislative initiative against measurable real-world results, with every published number sealed to a methodology version and a public source. The analytical CMS — methodology source-of-truth, source registry, lineage graph, briefs — is maintained in a separate private workspace; published methodology is mirrored to a public Quartz site (methodology.firststatelens.com, forthcoming). Built by FirmSide AI · Civic Analytics Lab. The brand is deliberately decoupled from any single stakeholder.