Hi, I'm Wade. I run the Move Weight Foundation, a federally recognized 501(c)(3), and this campaign funds public records access in Olive Branch.

This work started in Miami, Oklahoma, when I tried to find out how my own city was operating and learned what it costs an ordinary person just to ask. So I built a way for people to ask without putting their name on anything.

Olive Branch is now one of fourteen chapters. Here is what already exists at olivebranch.exposemississippi.com, before a dollar is raised: 30 public meetings indexed, every one with its agenda attached, refreshed automatically every week.

The question this chapter exists to answer is about the other side of the DeSoto County tax base. Development moves across a county, and so does the tax base that follows it. Rezonings are public. The development agreements that made a rezoning worth doing are often separate documents that never appear on an agenda — and those are the ones worth requesting by name.

Requests cost money, and that is the honest obstacle. Bodies bill per page, per hour of staff time, per certified stamp, and you do not learn the price until after you ask.

Every dollar goes to records fees. The bill arrives, we pay it, and what comes back is published whole and unredacted — linked to the body's own copy so you can check us. I file in the Foundation's name so nobody in Olive Branch has to attach their own name to a request.

Your donation is tax-deductible. The Move Weight Foundation is a 501(c)(3).