Police departments & sheriff's offices
Tell your department's story — before someone else tells it for you.
A newsroom for press releases, transparency pages the community respects, recruitment that presents the badge the way it deserves, and records-request forms that route themselves — engineered to the WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility standard from the first line of code. We build it, you approve it live, then you pay. Live in days — no five-year contract, no RFP.
Free plan, no credit card. Or go Civic for the department features — you approve it before you pay.
- WCAG 2.1 AA by construction
- Live in days, not months
- No contract, cancel anytime
- Under the bid threshold — no RFP
Built for how you serve
Everything a department needs to be seen, trusted, and staffed.
Right now the community hears about your department from everywhere but your department. A real website — not a buried page on the county site — puts you back in control of the story.
Emergency alert banner
Road closures, AMBER and Silver alerts, severe weather, active scam warnings — posted site-wide in seconds and taken down just as fast.
Newsroom & press releases
Post an official statement in minutes — dated, quotable, and linkable. When the story breaks, residents and reporters get it from you first.
Transparency & accountability
Policies, use-of-force and complaint processes, annual reports, and department stats — the pages that build trust and answer the FOIA request before it's filed.
Community programs
Neighborhood watch, National Night Out, ride-alongs, youth and senior outreach — listed, dated, and easy for residents to find and join.
Recruitment
The badge deserves better than a PDF. What the job is, what you offer, the hiring steps, and an application form that lands in your inbox.
Records & request forms
Records requests, FOIA, tips, and general questions — typed forms that route to the right desk, with the "call 911 for emergencies" line built in.
ADA Title II · The clock is running
Accessibility isn't a feature. For a police department, it's the law.
The U.S. Department of Justice's ADA Title II rule requires state and local government websites — including police departments and sheriff's offices — to meet WCAG 2.1 AA, on federal deadlines. Overlay widgets don't get you there; courts and accessibility experts consider them insufficient. We build conformance into the markup itself — not a $4,200-a-year add-on.
Jurisdictions serving 50,000 or more residents.
Jurisdictions under 50,000 — and special districts. Your city or county's population sets the date.
We engineer every CE Sites page to the WCAG 2.1 AA standard and ship an accessibility-statement page with it. We engineer to the standard; your counsel advises on your entity's specific obligations. If we ever ship something that misses the standard, we fix it — that's on us.
The easy part is us
We build it. You approve it. Then you pay.
You're running a department, not a web project. Send us a few photos and the basics — we do the rest, and nothing goes live until you've seen it and said yes.
- We build the first draft. A complete site — pages, words, and images — from a short brief about your department.
- We move your old site for you. Public-sector onboarding includes migrating your existing content — free.
- You approve it live before you pay. See the real site on your own web address first. No surprises.
- No contract. Month-to-month, cancel anytime. No five-year term, no cancel-early penalty.
- You own it. Export your entire site and content whenever you want. No lock-in — the one honest exit in this market.
- A real person answers. You talk to the engineers who built the platform — not a call center.
The honest price
What departments actually pay — and what you'd pay us.
The government-website industry runs on five-year contracts, five-figure invoices, and accessibility sold as an add-on. We don't.
| Vendor | Typical cost | Contract | Accessibility |
|---|---|---|---|
| CivicPlus | $8,000–$25,000 / yr | Multi-year, ~5–7% annual escalator | ~$4,200 / yr add-on (AudioEye) |
| revize | ~$5,900 / yr (+ setup) | 5-year term; cancel early = full balance due | Overlay widget |
| Granicus | ~$12,000+ / yr | Enterprise term, ~7% escalator | Maintained AA |
| CE Sites — Civic | $149 / mo (~$1,490–1,788 / yr) | Month-to-month · cancel anytime · export anytime | Built to WCAG 2.1 AA — included |
Figures from vendors' published pricing and municipal procurement records, 2024–2026. Re-verify at contract time; pricing churns. We're not the $500/yr hobbyist tier — we're the one with AI, engineering, and compliance in the base price.
Everything above, plus hosting, security, updates, and get-found-by-Google-and-AI optimization. About $1,500–$1,800 a year — under every state's competitive-bid threshold, so no RFP: your governing body approves it on the consent agenda.
★ Founders' rate: first 250 departments get $250 off year one of Civic + free migration — code AMERICA250, ends Sept 7, 2026See it live
Prairie Creek Police Department
A complete police-department site built on CE Sites — newsroom, transparency, community programs, recruitment, and an accessibility-first build. Open it, run it through a screen reader, check the contrast. That's the standard you'd ship.
Be the first in your county
The department that controls its own story is the one people trust.
Be the first agency in your area with a fast, accessible, no-nonsense website — the one that posts the statement first, recruits the best, and answers the records request before it's filed. Start free today.
Straight answers
The questions command staff actually ask.
Do we have to put it out for bid?
Almost never. At roughly $1,500–$1,800 a year, Civic sits under every state's competitive-bid threshold and the federal micro-purchase limit. The usual path is a vendor proposal on your governing body's consent agenda — no formal RFP.
Is it really accessible?
Yes — WCAG 2.1 AA built into the HTML: semantic markup, keyboard navigation, real contrast. Not an overlay widget, which the courts don't accept.
Can we post press releases ourselves?
Yes. The newsroom is click-to-edit — post a statement, closure, or update in minutes. No webmaster, no plugins, no HTML.
We already have a site. Can you move it?
Yes. Public-sector onboarding includes moving your existing content for you, and you approve the new site before you pay.
Are we locked in?
No. Month-to-month, cancel anytime, and export everything whenever you like. No five-year term, no cancel-early penalty.
Who's behind it?
Champlin Enterprises, an AI-native software company in Gurnee, Illinois. You deal with the engineers who built the platform.
Put your department back in control of the story.
Accessible by construction. Live in days. No contract, no RFP. Start free — you approve it before you pay a dollar.