Trust policy
Sources & editorial policy
Primary sources first
Government requirements and government guidance should be supported by primary official sources whenever available. Official agencies, statutes, regulations, administrative codes, boards, departments, and government manuals are preferred over summaries written by third parties.
Extension sources are labeled
University extension material can be useful for practical educational guidance. It is presented as extension material rather than being described as an official government requirement.
Discovery is not authority
Commercial blogs, contractor pages, law-firm marketing, forums, social posts, and AI-generated pages may sometimes help identify terminology or locate a primary source. They are not silently substituted for primary authority on government requirements.
Plain language without changing legal status
Editorial presentation should make the approved proposition easier to understand without upgrading a recommendation into a requirement, hiding conditions, or inventing certainty. Independent propositions remain independently attributable.
Conflicts and ambiguity
Meaningful source conflicts, unclear applicability, and unresolved legal status are routed to research or human review rather than resolved by choosing whichever source was found first.
Public excerpts stay limited
Pages use concise supporting excerpts and link readers to the underlying source. Internal evidence preservation is separate from public reproduction of source documents.