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1 of 17 desks have not been read in over 48 hours. Their pages say when each was last read. Anything those desks show as upcoming or underway may have changed — check the source before relying on it.

Following a public record

605Buzz re-reads the records behind these articles on a schedule. If you follow something a record states — a road, a town, a permit number, an employer — you get an email when that record is corrected or the filing behind it is amended, and when any other record 605Buzz publishes states the same value under the same field.

605Buzz is not sending these emails yet. Everything that decides who may be emailed is built and switched off. Your subscription is stored as pending and nothing at all is sent about it — including the message asking you to confirm it. When sending goes live you will get that one message first, and nothing until you answer it.

What a follow actually matches

A follow is a match on the value, not on the office that published it. 605Buzz reads records from many desks — the state transport department, city permit and annexation offices, county and city clerks, chambers of commerce, auction houses, the Weather Service, the labour department. If two of them state the same value under the same field, following that value gets you both.

That matters most for a broad value. Following a town is closer to "tell me about that town" than to "tell me about this one office," because several desks state a town. Following SD-44 or a permit number is narrow, because almost nothing else states those. Pick the value that matches what you actually want to hear about — the option list under an article shows you exactly what each one says.

An identifier is not always unique either. South Dakota's road department publishes a restriction and a road-work item for one closure and gives both the same event number, so following that number can reach you about either.

Why you pick a value instead of typing one

The options under an article are the exact words the record uses, and matching is exact. South Dakota publishes a road as SD-45 — not SD 45, not Highway 45 — so a value typed from memory can look perfect and match nothing, forever, with no error to tell you. Rather than guess what you meant, 605Buzz offers what the record actually says.

What you cannot follow

That field names a street address, a map coordinate, or a party who may be a private individual, so 605Buzz will not put a standing alert on it. The records these articles come from name people and places that did nothing but appear in a filing, and a standing alert on somebody's doorstep is a different thing from following a road, a town, a permit or an employer. You can follow any of those — and a value that reads as a street address is refused whichever field it arrives in, so this is not a spelling to get around.

That value reads as a street address — a house number and a street, a PO box, or a platted lot — and 605Buzz does not put a standing alert on a doorstep, whichever field the address was published under. Some listings state an address where a venue's name was expected. The rule reads the shape of the value, so it also refuses a public building whose record gives it as an address; watching that place by its name, its town, or the road it sits on works, and none of those is somebody's front door.

Leaving

Every email carries a one-click unsubscribe link. To have your address erased entirely, write to privacy@605buzz.com — though mail to 605buzz.com is not routed yet, so that address currently bounces — and see the privacy notice for what is stored and for how long.