For Cities, Towns & Counties
Your town's social media is a public record. State law says keep it.
Cities, towns, and counties are required to retain their social media and other public communications under state open-records law. Sharp Archive captures it all automatically — across 23+ channels — at the lowest price, with no long-term contract.
- Listed in the FINRA Compliance Vendor Directory
- Built for open-records law
- 23+ Platforms
Municipalities have to keep the record — without a big budget to do it.
Your social channels are how residents hear from you, and every post, comment, and message is a public record. When a resident, reporter, or attorney files an open-records request, you need to produce it — even content that's since been edited or deleted.
Capture everything, automatically
Posts, comments, messages, and media are captured in real time — including content that's later edited or deleted.
Answer requests in minutes
Full audit trails and search by date, channel, or keyword mean producing records for an open-records request takes minutes, not days.
Priced for public budgets
The lowest price in the category, month-to-month, with no long-term contract and free data export anytime.
Set up in 5 minutes
Connect your channels
Authorize your municipality's social accounts, email, and website once. No IT project, no software to install.
Archiving runs on its own
Sharp Archive captures every post, comment, and message automatically and preserves it in tamper-evident format.
Produce records on demand
Search, review, and export exactly what a request calls for — with the audit trail to back it up.
Intelligent Monitoring
Get alerted to what matters — not to everything.
Teams switching from other archivers tell us the same thing: their old system flags everything, so staff spend their time clearing noise — and the comment that actually matters gets buried with the rest.
Sharp Archive scans content as it's archived — across all 23+ channels — and checks it against the rules and policies that apply to your municipality. Content gets a risk score, and only higher-risk items surface for review. Your team looks at what's actually a concern, not every routine post.
Scan on capture
Every post, comment, and message is analyzed the moment it's archived — across all your municipality's channels.
Score against the rules
Content is checked against the policies and regulations that apply to you and assigned a risk score, with concerning language highlighted.
Surface only what's flagged
When content crosses the risk threshold, your team is notified — so review time goes to genuine concerns, not routine activity.
Switching costs you nothing to start
30-day free trial
Archive your municipality's channels for 30 days. No credit card, no commitment. See exactly how records production works before you decide.
No-cost startup
No setup fees, no onboarding charges, no implementation invoice. Connect your channels and archiving begins the same day.
10% below any quote
Send us a quote from any vendor — Smarsh, ArchiveSocial, CivicPlus, anyone. We come in 10% under it for your full term.
Locked into another vendor? If your contract has six months or less remaining, we cover Sharp Archive at no cost until it expires. Payments only begin when your old contract runs out — so you never pay for two systems at once.
Be ready for the next records request before it arrives.
Start free, pay nothing to set up, and beat any quote you have by 10%. Connect your municipality's channels and see your archive working.
Listed in the FINRA Compliance Vendor Directory · Built for open-records law · 23+ Platforms