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Works Better Corporation, a nonpartisan public benefit corporation, builds this site.

Independent public-records project, separate from the City of Lakewood and from every party and campaign.

Every number carries one of four labels (FACT, CALC, SAMPLE or PENDING) and a source you can open.

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The corrections log

Trust is built by showing the work — including the mistakes. When a published figure on the Lakewood pages changes because a source conflicted, the publisher revised it, or we got it wrong, the change is logged here. 2 corrections since 5 October 2026, the most recent on 6 October 2026. This log was last checked on 6 October 2026. Dated, public, permanent — nothing is edited away.

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Every correction, newest first

Each entry names what was published, what it is now, and how the change was found. The label on the right says what kind of change it was.
  • Oct 6 · Reader input — until today the sign-up on this page was demo only, nothing was collected, and a project page had no Follow or rating. From today the sign-up, Follow and your take on a project are real. What you send goes to a store this project controls: a rating or comment is kept with no name, address or identifier, and no rating and no total is published on this site, while a comment is never published on it; a sign-up or follow keeps your address and what you follow, sends a confirmation link before anything else, and unsubscribes in one click. We do not record IP addresses, and we do not track whether an email was opened. The handling note is in the methodologydisclosed
  • Oct 5 · The police tile called Police the largest department line. Public Works is larger. The Police budget tile said $73.1M, 2026 adopted, all funds, was “the largest department line,” and the receipt table beside it called Police “the largest personnel budget in the city.” The adopted budget book shows Public Works at $78,921,797, which is larger than Police at $73,052,892. The $73.1M figure was right and the word “largest” was wrong. We also removed the personnel claim: nothing on this site is sourced to a personnel total, so it had no support. The tile now states the Police figure without a ranking, and the Budget page lists every department by sizecorrected