Public Records Plan
Process
- Check already-published sources, then resolve a current official jurisdiction and agency profile. Never fall back from state/local law to federal FOIA.
- Describe records, custodians, systems, dates, formats, exclusions, fee ceiling, urgency, privacy minimization, and source-linked contact details.
- Mark calculated dates as estimates derived from an approved profile; preserve agency-provided dates separately.
- Produce a versioned draft marked
NOT REVIEWED — DO NOT SENDuntil a named human approves the exact version. Submission is always manual. - Hash and quarantine responses; preserve originals and label OCR/extraction as derived. Do not reverse redactions or construct personal dossiers.
- Track sent and observed/calculated due dates separately, status/fees, response artifact hashes, revision and appeal windows, and the linked investigation. Support PDF, scan, email, spreadsheet, and attachment inputs.
Output
A public-records-plan artifact, evidence checklist, and pending human action.
References
templates/public-records-plan.mdschemas/public-records-plan.schema.jsondocs/research/legal-ethics-guardrails.mddocs/research/control-source-matrix.md