Built for Michigan local government

Always Compliant.Without the binders.

FOIA, Open Meetings, retention, and board packets. Handled. Built around Michigan statutes and priced for the township budget. Dekree drafts. You approve. Nothing sends without you.

A 20-minute walkthrough, built around your office's actual workflow. We'll show you exactly how it fits.

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SC
City of Example
Good morning, Sarah.
Tuesday, April 22
Compliance score
94/100
FOIA 96Open Meetings 91
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Needs attention
Police incident reports, Q1
FOIA-2026-0041 · MCL 15.235(2)
Overdue
Council minutes, April 4
OMA · MCL 15.269(1)
3d
Budget hearing notice
OMA · MCL 15.265(2)
9d
3
open FOIA
1
overdue
Apr 22
next meeting
7
public bodies
847
archived
18/20
obligations
30-day activity
30 days agoToday

Built for every Michigan public body

1,240
Michigan townships
276
Cities, plus 253 villages
83
Counties + road commissions
537
School districts

You know the pain.

Clerks, managers, administrators, and secretaries juggle FOIA and Open Meetings obligations across every Michigan public body. Often part-time, without legal staff, using spreadsheets and memory.

FOIA responses drafted from memory, hoping the statute has not changed.

Dekree drafts legally correct responses with current MCL citations in seconds.

Tracking 5-business-day FOIA and 18-hour OMA deadlines on paper calendars.

Every deadline calculated automatically from the statute, with smart notifications.

No way to know if you are actually compliant until a lawsuit lands.

Live compliance score across every FOIA and Open Meetings obligation.

Meeting minutes, notices, and agendas scattered across cabinets and email threads.

Searchable document vault with full-text search and retention tracking.

Everything a clerk handles. One place.

Purpose-built for municipal compliance workflows. Not adapted from generic project management tools.

How Dekree works

Dekree drafts. You approve. Nothing sends without you.

Three things happen between a FOIA email arriving and the response going out. Dekree does two of them. You do the one that matters.

01

Dekree receives the request.

A FOIA email lands at your dedicated inbox. Dekree classifies the request, extracts the requester, and logs the timeline event.

Forwarded from the township inbox. Classified in under a second.

02

Dekree drafts the response.

Pulled from the Compliance Graph: the right MCL exemptions, the 5-business-day deadline math, the fee estimate. Ready for your review.

Cites MCL 15.243(1)(a)–(cc) where applicable.

03

You approve. It sends.

Read the draft. Edit if you want. Click send. The portal updates, the timeline logs, the deadline closes. Audit trail is automatic.

Nothing leaves your office without your explicit click.

Our core innovation

A structured database of every Michigan FOIA + OMA obligation.

When the AG updates the OMA Handbook, your software updates the same day. No seminar to attend. No attorney to call. The Compliance Graph is the living legal layer underneath everything Dekree does.

When state law changes, your obligations update automatically.

Deadlines calculated from statute, not guesswork.

Every citation verified against current MCL language.

Compliance score derived from real legal requirements, not arbitrary checklists.

FOIA
MCL 15.231 et seq.
Freedom of Information Act
OMA
MCL 15.261 et seq.
Open Meetings Act
Compliance Graph
18 nodes
5-day deadline
FOIA response math
Exemptions
MCL 15.243(1)
Fee components
MCL 15.234(1)
18-hr notice
OMA special meetings
Posting rules
OMA Sec. 5
Minutes schema
OMA Sec. 9
Templates
Deadlines
Citations
Calendars

Last graph update: 2026-07-12, citations re-verified at the source. The cascade refreshes templates, deadlines, and citations across every customer.

One platform. Four people it serves.

The clerk uses it daily. The supervisor checks it weekly. The resident touches it monthly. The auditor runs it annually. All the same software.

Stop dreading the FOIA inbox.

You wear five hats already. Dekree handles the FOIA hat: drafts the response, calculates the deadline, posts the notice, files the timeline.

What they get
  • FOIA responses drafted automatically, ready to review in minutes
  • OMA notice math handled automatically (regular and special meetings)
  • Every record findable in one search bar across years of history
  • A first-week onboarding plan that actually fits your week
Customer story
“This is completely changing the way we track FOIA. Dekree has eliminated our compliance challenges. Now we have everything in one place with known deadlines. It’s a huge step forward for our township.”
Jason Gatlin
Supervisor, Wakeshma Township
Read the Wakeshma story

Pay for what you run. Add the rest when you need it.

Each product is priced on its own and scales with your size. Start with FOIA, expand into the full suite, and never pay more than the suite cap. Already host documents or run meetings elsewhere? Buy only what you are missing.

FOIA

Public-records requests, end to end. Responses drafted for you, redaction included.

Pricing scales with population
Open Meetings

Agendas, notices, minutes, and recordings in one workflow.

Pricing scales with population
Records & Retention

Retention schedules and disposition tracking on every record.

Pricing scales with population
Public Document Portal

A searchable public document library for residents.

Pricing scales with population
Payments

Collect FOIA fees online. Funds settle straight to your bank.

Free, included
Reports & Analytics

Compliance analytics and the annual FOIA summary, one click.

Pricing scales with population
Want everything? The suite is capped below the sum.

All five products, capped below the sum and scaled to the population you serve. Build your exact plan and see your price in seconds.

Build your plan
Made in Michigan

Founded in Michigan. Modeled around your statutes.

Dekree was started in Kalamazoo. Michigan is our first market, and the product reflects it: FOIA (MCL 15.231 et seq.) and the Open Meetings Act (MCL 15.261 et seq.) modeled at the statute level, not bolted on top of a generic schema. The deadline math, the exemption library, the response templates, built around what the AG enforces here.

MCL 15.231MCL 15.243MCL 15.261OMA Handbook (Mar 2026)
See the Michigan compliance map
1,769General-purpose local governments

1,240 townships, 276 cities, 253 villages, every one bound by FOIA + OMA.

906Education entities

School districts, ISDs, community colleges, charter schools.

600+Special districts and authorities

Road commissions, drain commissioners, libraries, DDAs.

Made in Kalamazoo. Member, Michigan Association of Municipal Clerks, and we show up where Michigan clerks do.

Switching from Outlook + Excel?

You are not alone. That is our most common starting point.

Most of our customers run their compliance work from inboxes, spreadsheets, and paper binders. We expect that. The migration is the part we own. You do not lose a week setting things up.

See the migration plan
01
We import what you have.

Your existing FOIA log, meeting calendar, contact list, and minutes archive. Dekree pulls them in during onboarding.

02
One onboarding session walks you through it.

A live working session on your real data. Your first FOIA, your first OMA notice, your first auto-drafted minutes, set up and explained.

03
You run it from there.

By the end of week one you are publishing notices, drafting FOIA responses, and approving minutes on your own.

Dekree

Compliance simplified. Confidence amplified.

Let us show you around. A 20-minute walkthrough, built around how your office actually works: every FOIA tracked, every OMA notice posted, nothing falling through the cracks.

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