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Our standard

How we verify every fact on these pages

We publish school safety mapping laws, deadlines, and grant funding for all 50 states. School safety is too consequential to get wrong, so we hold every page to one rule: every law, deadline, and grant carries a primary government source and the date we last checked it. This is the standard behind 22 mandate states, 3 with legislation proposed, and 25 where grant funding can pay for mapping today.

The standard

Six rules we hold the data to

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A primary source for every fact
Each law, deadline, and grant traces to a government record: the statute or bill text, the agency program page, or the federal listing. If we cannot point to that source, the fact does not go on the page.
02
A verified date on everything
Every citation shows the date we last checked it against its source. You can see at a glance how fresh each claim is, not just that it was true at some unnamed point in the past.
03
Status, stated plainly
We separate enacted mandates from proposed bills from funding-only states, and we label each one. We never imply a bill is law, and we never imply a state requires mapping when it only funds it.
04
No page without substance
A state page ships only when it carries enough verified, sourced detail to be useful. We would rather show a shorter, fully sourced page than pad it with generic filler.
05
We re-check, and we date the re-check
Programs and deadlines move. We revisit sources on a rolling basis and update the verified date when a fact still holds, or change the fact when it has moved.
06
Confirm at the source before you act
These pages are informational, not legal advice. Every claim links straight to its official source so your team and your counsel can confirm the current rule before you commit a dollar.
What this looks like

On every state page, the proof is built in

You do not have to trust us, and you do not have to leave the page to check us. Each state page carries its evidence inline:

  • Numbered citations next to each law, deadline, and grant figure, each one linking to the government source it came from.
  • A Sources list at the foot of every page, with the date we last verified each source.
  • A plain status label telling you whether that state has an enacted mandate, a proposed bill, or grant funding only.
  • A disclaimer that this is informational, not legal advice, with a prompt to confirm the current rule at the source before acting.
FAQ

Questions about our sourcing

Where does the data on the state pages come from?

Every law, compliance deadline, and grant program is sourced from a primary government record: a state statute or bill, a department of education or homeland security program page, or a federal grant listing. For these legal and funding facts we do not rely on blogs, vendor marketing, or secondary summaries as the source. Where a page cites an industry or partner figure for context, it is attributed to that source by name so you can see exactly where it came from.

How current is the information?

Each fact carries the date we last verified it against its source. Programs, amounts, and deadlines change, so we re-check sources on a rolling basis and update the verified date when we confirm a fact still holds or change the fact when it has moved.

Is any of this legal advice?

No. These pages are informational. Mapping mandates and grant rules are interpreted by your state and your counsel. Always confirm the current requirement and eligibility at the official source before you act, which is why every claim links directly to that source.

What is the difference between a mandate, a proposed bill, and funding only?

A mandate is an enacted law that requires schools to provide responder-ready mapping. A proposed bill is legislation introduced but not yet law. Funding only means there is no mapping law in that state yet, but state or federal grant money can still pay for responder-ready mapping today. We label each state by which of the three applies.

See where your state stands

Every state, every mapping law and deadline, and the grant funding available to pay for it, each fact sourced and dated.

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