Two seniors at Miami Beach High School have launched Miami-Dade Commission Watch to help the public monitor local government through meeting summaries and agenda highlights. Conrad Gelber and Daniel Llobet are enlisting fellow high school students in their county to monitor their own towns and write editorials. The two also created Florida County Commission Watch to encourage high school students in other counties to monitor meetings.

The two students, interested in government and public policy, told us that they hope other students will step up to engage with their local agencies. They are operating the websites on their own time, with their own money.

Both have had internships in local government and civic engagement organizations. Gelber served as an intern in the Office of the Miami-Dade County Mayor, and makes it clear that the website operates independently of the county and high school.

Llobet states on his bio that “Too often, the decisions that shape daily life in Miami-Dade (housing, transit, public safety, and budgets) sit locked inside hundred-page agendas of dense legal language. Commission Watch breaks that barrier, with accessibility at its core: briefings in English, Spanish, and Haitian Creole, for every reader, on any device, at no cost.”

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Posted: September 1, 2026
Category: Brechner News