VI Update

USVI Public Records

A VI Update Project · Brian LoudenThe territory’s public record — kept public.
The U.S. Virgin Islands’ public record

Every record.
One address.

In the territory, government reports vanish from official sites, audits go unpublished, and links die. This is the U.S. Virgin Islands’ permanent public record — the documents, the databases behind them, and the money trails that connect them — archived, verified, and free for anyone to search, from any phone. Kept independent so it can’t quietly disappear. Why this exists

What lives at this addressmore moving in
Documents

The Document Vault

Audits, acts of the Legislature, financial reports, court records, 990s — every document an archival copy with its original source and an integrity fingerprint.

Browse the Library →
Databases

The Shadow Ledger

The query room. Every government payment, budget line, court docket, federal award and audit finding — sortable, filterable, exportable to the cent.

Open the databases ↗ · 970,238 rows, to the cent
Contribute

Submit a Document

Have a record the public should be able to find forever? We can process anything — and you can stay completely anonymous.

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The shelveslive counts
The databasessnapshot 2026-07-26 · Shadow Ledger
346,535
gov’t payments
190,666
budget lines
45,436
payroll person-years
36,517
court dockets
23,706
federal awards
38,963
FEMA aid records
25,916
flood policies & claims
1,906
nonprofit 990 filings
1,243
audits & oversight reports
821
single-audit findings

970,238 rows across 45 public tables in three databases, rebuilt from the source systems — open the Shadow Ledger ↗ to query any of it, or start from a document in the Library and follow the money: audit pages here link straight into the Ledger's audit-census and findings databases, and every Ledger audit row links back to its permanent document page.

Moving in next at this address: the GVI audits tracker (built on the census of every known audit of the territorial government — its core corpus became queryable in the Shadow Ledger on July 26) and the federal-money dashboards, folding into the database room. One place, on purpose — less spread, more record.
Explore the archiveNine collections, 245 shelves, every agency and era — every tile a door. How it worksWhere documents come from, how they’re verified, and what the fingerprints mean. Why a private citizen keeps thisThe case for a permanent public record — and the corrections policy that keeps it honest.