This tracker is an internal tool of the Jewish Center for Justice. It follows California legislation and is intended for JCJ staff and volunteers. This page explains, in plain terms, what it records.
The short version. No accounts, no analytics, no advertising, and nothing sold or shared for marketing. The web server keeps a standard access log — including visitors' IP addresses — which is used only to see who is reaching the site and to spot automated abuse.
What is recorded automatically
Like almost any website, the server writes a line to its log for each request. Each entry contains:
- the IP address the request came from;
- the date and time;
- the page or file requested, and the response code;
- the browser and operating system your device reports (for example, "Safari on iPhone");
- whether a passphrase attempt succeeded or failed.
An IP address usually identifies a network rather than a person — everyone on the same office or home Wi-Fi normally shares one — but it can be personal information, so it is treated as such here.
What is not recorded
- Passphrases. Only whether an attempt succeeded or failed is logged, never the value entered.
- Names, emails, or accounts. The site has none.
- Analytics or tracking. There is no Google Analytics, no advertising network, no social media pixel, and no cross-site tracking of any kind.
- Your activity elsewhere. Nothing on this site follows you to other websites.
Cookies and browser storage
Two cookies may be set, and neither is used for tracking:
- a site access cookie, set after you enter the team passphrase, so you are not asked again for 30 days;
- an admin cookie, for administrators only, lasting 7 days.
Both contain a random value and nothing about you. The login page also stores a small counter in your browser to enforce the limit on repeated failed attempts; it stays on your device and is cleared when you sign in.
Who can see the logs
The activity summary is available only to administrators, who must both know a separate admin passphrase and be connecting from an approved network address. It is never publicly accessible.
How long information is kept
Server access logs rotate on the hosting provider's standard schedule and are deleted as they age out — generally within a few weeks. The activity summary shown to administrators covers roughly the previous two weeks.
Other services involved
Running the tracker means a few other organisations necessarily see some traffic:
- DigitalOcean hosts the server.
- Supabase stores the bill data the site displays.
- LegiScan is the source of the legislative data, under a CC BY 4.0 licence.
- assembly.ca.gov and senate.ca.gov host the legislator photographs shown on the Authors page. Those images load directly from the state's servers, which means those servers can see the IP address of anyone viewing that page.
The legislative data itself
Bills, votes, authors, and legislative calendars are public records of the California Legislature. Nothing on this site is confidential, and how a legislator voted is a matter of public record. Summaries labelled as coming from the Legislative Counsel's Digest are the Legislature's own official descriptions, not JCJ's characterisation.
Questions
For anything about this tracker or the information it holds, contact the Jewish Center for Justice through jewishcenterforjustice.org.
Last updated August 2026. This is a plain-language notice describing how an internal tool works — not a legal agreement. If the tracker is ever opened to the public, it is worth having this reviewed against the privacy laws that would then apply.