Granicus

That's including more than five years as the citywide digital accessibility coordinator, where she built out more than a dozen accessibility training resources, made accessibility training mandatory for new content authors, and built a citywide accessibility champions program.

Her work has been featured by Granicus as a model for citywide web accessibility strategy, and she has spoken at many accessibility conferences, including Tech Access of Oklahoma and the Colorado Digital Summit.

Karen, that is quite the level of expertise you're bringing to us today.

Thank you so much for being here.

7 folks is early.

Well, our friends at Granicus did not get that memo.

They're hosting Building the Federal Experience Ecosystem, Tuesday, October 27th, also, well, a little later, 7.30 to 11.00.

Yeah, you got to set your alarm for those.

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Fairfax City's public meeting videos and agendas are offline after its web host, Granicus, pulled its services as a precaution over a PHP security flaw.

It's tied to vulnerabilities the FBI flagged today, which AI agents helped uncover.

A city spokesperson said there's no sign of a breach and expects a fix within 24 hours.

I didn't bring that up earlier.

You said at Granicus.

Now I wanted to throw this out there.

You are no longer with Maricopa and you are now with Granicus and you are an AI architect.

Yes.

Describe that.

But if they watch the city, can watch the city council meeting, it starts at 1:00 today, 1:00 or 1:30.

And then they could als- also watch it on YouTube later, or they can watch it, you know, on Facebook and Granicus.

Yeah.

The information's all there.

Last year, zoning regulations were amended to limit new non-owner-occupied short-term rentals to commercial and mixed-use districts.

The city's Department of Permit and Inspection Services uses Granicus, a third-party software platform, to aggregate public listings and identify noncompliant properties.

Petrucci, the head of permits and inspections, said his department grows more effective with each use of Granicus and otherwise uses a variety of public records to build as comprehensive a picture of the city's short-term rental industry as possible.

Still, the latest Granicus snapshot detailed 602 short-term rental listings, but has confirmed only 286 units as subject to city inspection and licensing.

Enforcement efforts include posting notifications of noncompliance on offending properties, issuing fines against owners, revoking short-term licenses, and in extreme cases, issuing orders to vacate and taking owners to court.

The path we pursue is to order an illegal short-term rental to cease operating until they come into compliance.

Tell us more of, like, how do you think through enablement, and how do you get somebody who's maybe technically curious but doesn't know security to speak the problem language of, of, of your buyer in security?

So I worked for this company a number of years ago called Granicus, which is a government gov tech company, and, uh, we sold to buyer personas that I didn't know, you know, city clerk, city, uh, manager, people like that.

And so when I started building a new, new hire enablement there, uh, I really went back to, what are these people doing all day? I had no idea what they w- what they were doing all day.

A lot of it was passing a f- a manila folder from office to office.

I'm not seeing the agenda for tonight.

Is it all in this Granicus thing?

Yeah.

If you guys aren't getting it, then we need to know so that we can fix it.

It's news to me.

Never used Granicus.

Don't have it.

Was never given access to it when I joined the commission here.