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What we got wrong, and when.

Every substantive change to a published case is logged below, in reverse chronological order. To request a correction or exercise your right of response, use the intake form first. Typos and stylistic edits are not logged.

Request a correction or right of response

If you are named in a case, or you see something the registry got wrong, use this form. A human reads every submission and replies within five business days. Substantive changes are logged below with the date and the source that prompted them.

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Policy

A registry that calls out other people's bookkeeping has to show its own. When a published case is materially changed — a dollar figure corrected, a name added or removed, a legal-status field updated, an evidentiary tier downgraded — the change appears below with the date, the case slug, the field changed, and the source that prompted it. Old URLs remain live; pages are amended, not deleted. Cases that are formally exonerated are tombstoned at the same URL with an exoneration note.

2026-05-20 · KCRHA title language

KCRHA forensic audit: removed the phrase "no fraud found" from the case title and outcome_summary field. The audit is active and ongoing, and a corrective-action plan was not yet due at the time of release. Stating "no fraud found" at the headline level reads as a conclusion when the matter is in fact under investigation. The audit's own statement that it did not find fraud is preserved in the case body, alongside the audit's caveat identifying gift cards, purchase cards, employee reimbursements, and account permissions as four high-risk areas where fraud could occur without being detected under existing controls.

2026-05-20 · SPS batch intake (4 new cases)

Four new Seattle Public Schools cases added through the INTAKE.md workflow. All passed §1 hard-reject gates and §4 inline cross-reference checks. The new cases:

Rejected during triage (failed §1 G3 source-tier gate): toxic-work-environment Instagram post, remote-work salary critique (Instagram), former-employees Facebook lawsuit reference, and unsourced pattern-claim items. The four published cases all pass the documented standard with multiple Tier 1 and Tier 2 sources.

2026-05-20 · Cross-case consistency pass

A structural pass across all 36 cases checking for broken cross-references, date conflicts, dollar-baseline confusion, inconsistent actor metadata, and tag duplicates. Twenty issues identified; five high/medium-severity fixes applied below. Low-severity tag normalizations folded in.

Broken cross-case references

Date conflict

Dollar-baseline clarification

Internal dollar consistency

Tag normalization

2026-05-20 · Actor-fact validation pass

A systematic review of every named actor, title, party affiliation, jurisdiction, legal_status, and evidentiary_status field across all 36 cases. 124 individual claims validated; 81.4% verified clean. Eighteen substantive fixes applied below.

Name and title corrections

Legal status updates (LEB cases)

Eleven Legislative Ethics Board cases were carrying legal_status: complaint_filed after the LEB had already issued advisory opinions. All eleven were updated to closed_no_action per the LEB opinion index. The oldest stale entry was LEB 24-06 Mullet (opinion issued June 4, 2024 — nearly two years stale).

Other legal status updates

Evidentiary status downgrades

Six cases were marked documented while citing only Tier 2 journalism sources. Two were corrected by adding a qualifying Tier 1 agency source. Four were downgraded to reported.

2026-05-20 · Dollar-figure validation pass

A systematic review of every dollars_at_issue claim in the registry against the cited primary sources surfaced four major discrepancies and one fiscal-year attribution error. All five were corrected the same day.

DCHS systemic audit

Constantine CEO ethics complaint

Dow Constantine appointed Sound Transit CEO

King County Health Through Housing

Seattle Public Schools structural deficit

2026-05-20 · URL liveness pass

(Earlier the same day, before the dollar-figure validation pass.)

Every source URL in every published case was checked for liveness. Four genuinely broken or stale URLs were replaced. Nine apparent 403s from Seattle Times and seattle.gov were confirmed as bot-block false positives; those URLs are live in a browser and were retained.

2026-05-20 · Substantive rewrite