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Records Request Management (GovQA)
Simplify public records request management with Granicus Records Request Management (GovQA), the highly configurable compliance software relied on by more state/local governments, public safety organizations, schools, and special districts than any other solution.
Overview
GovQA offers a finely tuned public records request management system that works across all departments and request types while putting time back in staff work day and money back in organizational budgets.
- Supported by the largest team of specialists in the industry, providing guided change management for ongoing satisfaction
- Secured with best-in-class data protections for confidence in confidentiality
- Scalable to keep up with evolving regulations and expanding responsibilities
- Simplified with automation tools to conquer escalating public records complexity
Outcomes
Improve the day-to-day with GovQA. Gain time and resources for other critical missions while reducing friction and risk with GovQA public records request software. Enhance experiences, outcomes, and civic engagement with modern tools to match requester expectations.

REDUCE WORKLOAD AND COSTS
The easiest request to fulfill is the one that’s self-served. Automatically deflect or merge redundant requests and reduce volume by 20-60%, ensuring consistent responses. Cut down on chaos around high-impact events with easy “+Follow” button for trending topics.

AUTOMATE REPETITIVE TASKS
With GovQA, access the best features for automation — custom-configured templates and workflows based on individual triggers for notifications, escalations, tracking, and oversight reporting — plus GovQA exclusive time-savers not available anywhere else.

INCREASE CYBERSECURITY
Not all data in staff care is suitable for release to the public. GovQA is fully CJIS, HIPAA, NIST, and FISMA compliant, offering the highest level of protection for exempt and confidential data. Build public trust and mitigate risk with redaction “oops!” protection, fully defensible audit trails, and timely exchange of sensitive documents within a secure environment.
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Functionality
From smart intake and vetting to records gathering, review, and redaction, to release and reporting, GovQA simplifies all aspects of request management. Replace manual processes, point solutions, and “first” solutions, with the powerful solution that gives time back to staff.
Patented predictive intake deflection automatically matches requester searches with “release-to-all” responses and FAQs for faster responses without any manual keyword prep work. Frictionless, dynamic intake forms collect all needed details (even with anonymous requests) and route seamlessly to the correct department for processing.
Clear fee communication builds trust and helps recover costs. Automatic estimate conversion creates fully itemized, accounting-aligned invoices and payments with an existing online fee processor or Granicus preferred vendor.
Deliver responses the way customers prefer while tracking and counting views and downloads with security features that prevent unauthorized, unknown, and expired link-sharing. Releasing records via the public portal can drastically reduce paper and other materials costs.
Duplicate requests are automatically identified so staff can work on them together for efficiency and response consistency. CC Responses deliver request communications and responsive packets to multiple requesters at the same time.
Streamline collaboration and prevent staff notification fatigue with precise assignment and escalation parameters. Request Nesting allows unlimited layers of delegation, collaboration, subrequests, or installments grouped under the original request.
Automatically extract, de-dupe, and search email records to simplify those “any-and-all” records requests. Securely stream, store, redact, transfer, and track video/audio records from inside GovQA with no limits in file size or type.
Resources
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No matter which GovQA solution, we’ll configure it to meet specific and ongoing needs. The GovQA Compliance Suite can grow with teams, centralizing all types of requests from within and across organizations.