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.

Four source-confidence levels

Verified — quoted from an official legislature site or primary statute text. The three verified states' rules on these pages are this level.
Checked — the statute text was read and cited, then paraphrased into one plain sentence for the Arena's state panel and the Panic HUD, for all 51 jurisdictions. Every such line carries its citation and the provisional notice, and no sentence is printed as state-specific without a citation behind it. Not attorney-reviewed.
Likely — the section number is corroborated by multiple independent secondary sources, but the raw statute text has not been fetched. Never published as a rule; the one Arena line that rests on such a reading carries a visible “reported, not verified” flag.
Unverified — not established. Never published in any form.

Why so few states

Three source-verified pack editions — 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 the four primary statute pages behind the pack’s cited rules and compares them to a stored hash. The 184 sections cited on the Arena and Panic HUD lines are not yet on that watch list; putting them there needs a source URL per section, which the research matrix does not carry today. 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. Source quotations and provisional summaries follow the source standards above; neither constitutes professional legal review. Saying so is more useful to you than the alternative.

Future professional review records

A completed review must identify the reviewer, professional role, licensed jurisdiction, review date, and edition. No completed record is displayed because no attorney sign-off is recorded for this edition.

Found something wrong?

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