How we verify

Amparo publishes rules people rely on in a moment they cannot pause. This page states exactly how a rule gets published — and what has not been done yet.

Three confidence levels

Verified — quoted from an official legislature site or primary statute text. Only this level is ever published as a state rule.
Likely — the section number is corroborated by multiple independent secondary sources, but the raw statute text has not been fetched. Never published.
Unverified — not established. Never published in any form.

Why so few states

Three states — Texas, Georgia and New York — are published. Careful sourcing contradicted the widely-copied list of “stop and identify” states on four of the first ten states researched. That is the argument against generating state content quickly: the fast version would have been wrong in four places, and a driver would have been holding it at the window.

The daily source check

A scheduled job re-fetches every primary statute page behind a published rule and compares it to a stored hash. A change means a person has to re-read it. It does not verify that the law is correct — no script can. “Sources checked” and “reviewed by a person” are different claims, and this site keeps them separate on purpose.

What has not been done yet

No attorney has signed off on the current edition. Amparo’s own standard is that a rule should also be reviewed by an attorney licensed in that state, tied to the specific edition reviewed. That has not happened yet — so no attorney badge appears anywhere on this site, and nothing here should be read as attorney-reviewed. Every published rule is quoted from primary statute text, which is a real standard, but it is a different and weaker one. Saying so is more useful to you than the alternative.

Found something wrong?

Write to hello@amparohq.com with the state and the rule. Corrections are the highest-priority work here.