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Methodology & corrections

How this site is sourced

How this site sources, verifies and corrects. Numeric fields trace to the agency page or the rule text, never to a training school or an aggregator.

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Entities filed
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Fields extracted
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Cleared for publication
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The verification protocol

  • Numeric fields trace to the agency page or the rule text, never to a training school or an aggregator.
  • Statute and rule citations link to the Legislature or the Secretary of State, never to Justia or FindLaw. Those are fine for research and wrong for citation.
  • lastVerified is per field, not per page. One date standing for a whole page hides which facts are stale.
  • Where sources conflict, the state agency wins and the conflict is footnoted.
  • Legislative session review each cycle. Oregon regulatory content decays quietly.

Why fewer fields are published than are held

A field renders as a claim only when it is confirmed, carries a source, carries a verification date, and has a value. Everything else is held. A field traced only to a search result rather than to an opened page is marked In verification rather than shown as a number.

Publishing the gap outranks publishing a guess. Roughly one field in seven currently clears that bar, and that ratio is the point rather than a defect.

Two standing rules, learned the hard way

A block is not an absence. Three false negatives came from recording an HTTP 403 as no portal exists. Any negative finding now requires two independent routes.

Derived statuses need the derivation checked at every link. One wrong status was two inferential steps from source and still went in at medium confidence.

Corrections

Published with what was claimed and what turned out to be true, because the pattern matters more than the individual fixes.

What was claimedWhat is true
BCD administers Curry, Grant, Morrow and Umatilla countiesOnly Umatilla. Curry and Morrow get electrical only; Grant is hybrid
Those counties cannot adopt R327Retracted. Most run their own structural programmes
Medford adopted R327 in April 2026Ordinance 2019-79, adopted 2019-10-17, partial
Hillsboro, Beaverton and Springfield have no public permit searchAll three do. An HTTP 403 was mistaken for an absence
Bend publishes a 20 to 25 psf snow figureThat is a state minimum. Bend sets none
Bend elevation factor is 0.007 psf per foot0.07. Wrong by a factor of ten
Hood River is 41 to 48 psfNo citable source. The nearest real figure has been withdrawn
SB 83 removed a wildfire hazard classification disclosureIt removed a wildland-urban interface question
OSFM holds a maintainable adoption rosterNotification is required before adoption, so no roster exists
Multnomah County runs a building departmentIt runs none at all. Permits route to three cities
Filed against our own record

Corrections research raised after publication, with the date and the source that prompted each.

what we published: That the R327 wildfire provisions took effect on 1 January 2026. · how we found it: By reading OAR 918-480-0010 in full rather than relying on a summary. · corrected on: 2026-08-07

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