About Our Content

Every guide on this site is built from official government sources. When we tell you what your state requires, we got it from the legislature's own text of the statute, the agency rule, or the decision itself, and never from another site's write-up of any of those.

The full rules are on one page now: Editorial Standards. It covers what has to be true before we publish a claim, which numbers we deliberately leave out because they go stale, how drafts get checked before they go live, and what happens when you report an error.

For who runs this site, see About Observed.org and Glenn Lyvers.

The short version

If you can't open our source and check us, we don't make the claim. Where an answer changes at the state line we say so, and we name the states we verified instead of implying we did all fifty. Nothing publishes until a separate pass has tried to break it against the primary sources. And when we get something wrong, email info@observed.org and we'll check it against the source and fix it.