Privacy & Use
Plain-language rules for privacy, consent, retention, correction, redaction, and publication.
No contributor's name, address, unit number, vehicle, or family information is published without explicit written consent.
Privacy
Submissions are indexed internally to direct records requests and shape published analysis — not to expose private residents. Sensitive identifiers are redacted before any internal review beyond the records desk.
Data integrity
We do not verify submissions. They are treated as unverified accounts used to direct inquiry, not as proven facts. Published pieces clearly separate what contributors reported, what the records show, and what is still unknown.
What we publish
- Filed PRR text once submitted.
- Agency responses and denials as received.
- Expenditure logs by category (donor names only with opt-in).
- Articles and explainers after source, redaction, and safety review.
- Filed complaints and public court records, after filing and quiet period.
What stays internal
- Contributor names, addresses, unit numbers, and private details.
- Case strategy, pleadings, and attorney work product from neighbor-led legal tracks.
- Settlement communications and OEC 408–adjacent material.
- Unverified accounts before records confirm or contradict them.
- AI chat logs, draft filings, and internal strategy files.
- Raw evidence, unredacted exhibits, and media files.
- Damages figures unless cleared against the current math control file.
Not legal advice. Counsel must review any settlement or NDA language before signature. Any confidentiality clause must preserve the right to tell the personal story, discuss public records and court filings, create public education, and publish generalized lessons that do not disclose confidential settlement terms.
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