Want to track Guam senators' records and performance? There's a new portal for that

By Jayvee Vallejera

Guam's public laws are now accessible through the latest section of Territorial Review, a newly launched website that puts the entire body of Guam jurisprudence online in an easy-to-use, searchable archive.

According to the Territorial Review's news release, the new section enables the public to track every senator's legislative records and performance.

The section includes records of more than 90 Guam senators from the 22nd Legislature (1993-1995) to the 38th Legislature. The feature is live now at territorialreview.org/people, is free and requires no account.

“For each one it answers a plain question that has been surprisingly hard to answer until now: what did this senator actually put into the law of Guam?” the news release states.

Each profile is built based on the public record, the news release said. It shows the public laws a senator introduced as prime sponsor, the parts of the Guam Code Annotated that those laws touched, and their signature bills, the ones that reached furthest into the code.

A senator who reshaped a single title of the code shows up differently from one whose work is spread across many, and the page makes that visible at a glance.

When a bill went through a public hearing, the profile links directly to the Guam legislature's own video of the hearing, so a reader can watch the debate that produced the law.

"We already made the law of Guam free to read. This is the next step—making it free to see who wrote it," said Karlo Dizon, founder of Territorial Review. “A voter should be able to look up their senator and see the actual record, the laws they sponsored and the sections they changed, not a campaign summary of it. That is what brings a government closer to the people it serves."

Dizon is a Stanford-trained attorney admitted in New York, Guam, Maryland, and the District of Columbia, a former research attorney at the Supreme Court of Guam and a member of the New York State Bar Association's Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies.

The Territorial Review news release said a senator is credited only with the bills they introduced as prime sponsor, not the bills they merely co-sponsored.

The attribution is deliberately conservative and is derived from the public record, it added.

“The goal is a record a reader can rely on, not an impression,” the news release states.

The new section is the first of several planned tools to help understand Guam's government.

Territorial Review welcomes corrections from the public. Anyone who spots an error can write to comms@territorialreview.org.

The website is intended to be a free legal-research platform for all laws of the five inhabited U.S. territories, starting with Guam. The body of laws in other territories (Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands and American Samoa) are being worked on and will soon become available.

Every AI-generated citation is verified against that database before it is shown. The project is editorially independent and human-accountable.