Local government responds to people who show up
You don't need any special standing to weigh in on what the Board decides. Here's how to find your district, follow along, and be heard.
Find your district
Type your address for an instant answer, or explore the map below to see how the county is divided and who represents each area.
Get alerts for your district and your issues
The general list sends every agenda and every recap. If that’s more than you want, pick the districts and topics you actually follow and we’ll only email you when a matching item is on an agenda or gets voted on. Leave everything unticked to keep getting the full digest.
Engage with local government
Five ways to weigh in on what the Board decides, whether or not you ever talk to us.
1. Read the agenda before the meeting
Full BCC and committee agendas are published in advance through the county's legislative system. Our Meeting Tracker highlights select items, but the full agenda always has more.
2. Speak at public comment
Members of the public can address the Board on agenda items. You can attend the meeting in person, or, when listed on the meeting notice, leave a voice message ahead of time on the phone number provided for that meeting.
3. Watch a meeting
Meetings are webcast when available, so you can follow along without attending in person.
4. Contact your commissioner's office
Each commissioner's office can take calls, emails, and meeting requests from constituents in their district. Start from the directory.
5. Follow along between meetings
We post plain-language summaries after each meeting we cover. Check back on the tracker, or reach out if you'd like to be notified.
Join Commission Watch
Reading along is step one. If you want to help build this project directly, here's how.
Become a Watchdog
Watchdog is our recognition for volunteers who go beyond reading along: who write, show up, and represent Commission Watch in person. Do all three, and you'll earn a pair of our branded binoculars.
1. Write an editorial
Submit an opinion piece on a Commission decision or piece of county legislation and get it published on the site.
2. Attend a BCC meeting with us
Come to a Board of County Commissioners meeting in person alongside the team. Check the Meeting Tracker for the next one, then reach out to join us there.
3. Wear the binoculars
Do both, and we'll send you a pair of branded Miami-Dade Commission Watch binoculars: the mark of a Watchdog. Wear them to your next meeting.
Other ways to help
Volunteer with us
Not ready for the full Watchdog path, but want to help some other way: research, writing, spreading the word? Reach out and tell us what you're interested in.
Start a local chapter
The Board of County Commissioners isn’t the only body making decisions where you live — your city commission meets too, and almost nobody covers it. We’re building the structure for student teams to run their own city’s Commission Watch site, on its own address, under the same nonpartisan standards. No city has an active team yet, so the first one is genuinely first.
Not in Miami-Dade? Start your own county's site
This project inspired a growing network of independent, student-run sites covering county government across Florida. If you're a student elsewhere in the state and want to build the same kind of coverage for your own county, Florida County Commission Watch has a signup that gets you a working site with no coding required.