Privacy & terms
Town Communicator makes public records easier to read. Here's where that information comes from, what we do with yours, and how to tell us we've got something wrong.
Where our information comes from
Everything in Town Communicator is drawn from records already published by the Town of Centreville and Queen Anne's County — meeting agendas and minutes, ordinances, the codified town code, and the county's public parcel data. We don't add information that isn't already public, and every record links back to its official source so you can check it yourself.
That includes property records: ownership, assessed value, sale history and the like, as published by the Maryland Department of Assessments and Taxation and the county's GIS. We show what the county shows. If you believe a property record is wrong, the county holds the official version — but please tell us as well, and we'll look at how we're presenting it.
We are not the town
Town Communicator is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by the Town of Centreville or Queen Anne's County. Nothing here is an official record. For anything that matters — a legal deadline, a permit, a property decision — use the official source we link to, or contact the town or county directly.
About the AI-written parts
Document and meeting summaries, and the answers from Ask, are generated by an AI model from the records themselves. They're built to stay grounded in those records and to cite what they drew on, and to say plainly when the record doesn't answer a question.
They can still be wrong. A summary may misread a document, or miss context that changes its meaning. Treat them as a way to find the right record quickly — not as a substitute for reading it. Where a summary concerns a named person, that caution matters most, and we would rather hear from you than leave a mistake standing.
Corrections and removal
If something about you, your property, or your work is wrong here — or you'd like us to reconsider showing it — tell us and choose “A record or summary is wrong” or “Request removal of information”. We act on those first.
We can correct or remove how we present something. We can't change the underlying public record, which stays with the town or county.
Your information
If you create an account, we keep:
- your name and email address, from the sign-in provider;
- the town you told us you live in;
- what you've saved — projects, conversations, and the topics you follow;
- a count of the questions you've asked, so we can apply plan limits fairly;
- who invited you, if you arrived through someone's link.
We use it to run the service and nothing else. We don't sell it, we don't share it with advertisers, and there is no advertising on TownInfo. Sign-in is handled by Microsoft Entra External ID, so we never see your password.
Your projects are private to you. Ask us and we'll delete your account and everything in it.
Fair use
Town Communicator is free for residents, and the free allowance is set generously for real civic use. We do limit automated or bulk extraction of the record through the service — not to keep public information from anyone, but because answering questions costs us real money, and bulk scraping would take the service away from the residents it's for. The records themselves remain public at their source, for anyone.
Getting in touch
Last updated July 2026.