Our disclosure of AI assistance, human editorial responsibility, factual verification, and safeguards against fabricated information.
Independent information: We are not a government agency, and an arrest is not proof of guilt.
Our approach
recentarrestrecords.org/ uses AI as an editorial support tool, not as the sole authority for legal or public-record facts. AI may assist with outlining, draft organization, wording improvements, and identifying items that a human editor should verify.
Human responsibilities
Our team is responsible for deciding what to publish, checking links and key claims, ensuring the jurisdiction is correct, and removing unsupported statements. Generated text cannot verify its own accuracy simply by sounding credible.
No invented details
Editors must not publish fabricated agency names, URLs, government affiliations, statutes, case outcomes, quotations, author qualifications or contact information. Sources should be independently consulted rather than accepted because an AI response included a citation-like reference.
Sensitive-topic review
Because arrest information may affect individuals, editors should watch for namesake confusion, stale records, claims of guilt, missing dispositions and personal details that are unnecessary to explain a public process.
Transparency
The use of editorial assistance does not change that human editors own the final publication decision. A page may disclose additional AI use when it materially affects how content was prepared.
Escalating uncertainty
If a material point cannot be supported, the team should withhold it, ask for another source or label the limitation clearly. Automated output is never used as a substitute for an official records response.