Where is the stable record identity?
Check the source URL, date, status, record ID, file identity, provenance, and corrections.
Locked audience order
Start here: verify a national public-interest evidence archive.
Federal-enforcement-first, source-linked records for oversight, legal review, journalism, and all disability families.
- Federal investigators and oversight
- Lawyers and whistleblowers
- Journalists and researchers
- All U.S. vulnerable people and families living with or born with any disability
Archive identity: Connecticut is one documented jurisdiction inside a national archive. Personal biography is secondary context. Source records remain separate from interpretation, and a report, allegation, response, receipt, or referral is not automatically a finding.
The six questions
Know what to check before you continue
- Who
- Who issued, received, wrote, or is identified in the source?
- What
- Is it a source record, archive summary, report, allegation, response, receipt, order, or finding?
- When
- What is the event date, source date, publication date, or later correction date?
- Where
- Does the record concern Connecticut, a federal agency, another state, or multiple jurisdictions?
- How
- Can the wording, URL, issuer, stable ID, file identity, and status be checked?
- Why
- Why is this record relevant to disability access, Medicaid choice, civil rights, or public oversight?
Choose one reader question
Find the path that matches your need
What does the record support without extending it?
Separate documented actions and source language from allegations, interpretation, and legal conclusions.
What can be cited without inference?
Confirm the exact wording, source class, issuer, date, context, and final disposition.
What happened, and what practical path comes next?
Read the plain-language summary, then compare it with the source, limitation, and relevant help guide.
Five steps
The shortest reliable verification method
Choose one question
Begin with the audience path or problem guide that matches your immediate need.
Identify the source class
Distinguish the original record from an archive summary, report, allegation, agency response, receipt, order, or official finding.
Check who, when, and where
Confirm the issuer, involved organization, date, jurisdiction, and exact documented action.
Open and compare the source
Read the original wording and surrounding context; check the stable ID or file identity when supplied.
Read the limit and corrections
Do not extend the source beyond what it states. Check later corrections or final dispositions before relying on it.
Text equivalent: choose a question, identify the source type, check the people, date, jurisdiction and action, compare the original source, then read its limits and corrections.
Source boundary
What this archive may support
- The existence and contents of an identified source.
- A dated action, statement, submission, response, order, settlement, sentence, or finding shown by that source.
- A source-linked chronology when each event retains its own evidence boundary.
Important limit
What it does not establish automatically
- That an allegation, complaint, receipt, referral, or request was accepted as true.
- Motive, guilt, wrongdoing, responsibility, liability, or a legal conclusion not stated by the controlling authority.
- Legal, medical, financial, or government advice for an individual situation.
Before citing or relying
Use the source identity checklist
- Exact title or description
- Issuer or source organization
- Event and publication dates
- Jurisdiction
- Documented action
- Stable URL or record ID
- Source class and current status
- What it supports
- What it does not establish
- Corrections or later disposition