Data changelog

August 10, 2026: fee-population disclosure and trust-fabric wiring

Corrected the homepage's paid-fee floor, which had been computed while excluding $0 protective-order filings from the underlying figure, making the displayed range inconsistent with the site's own database. Also corrected an overstated coverage claim (some surfaces referenced 50 states plus DC against a dataset that covers 10 states) and wired citation/trust-footer blocks consistently across the primary page types.

July 27, 2026: methodology scope and publisher identity corrections

Rewrote the methodology page to remove overstated claims (including a "reviewed line-by-line by our editorial team" description of what is a programmatic, database-driven pipeline) and replaced them with a bounded description of actual coverage (12 process types, 10 states), the data-vintage month, and how estimated records are flagged. Renamed the published author entity from "Plaincivil Editorial" (implying a human editorial team) to "PlainCivil" with an Organization credential, matching how the site is actually produced.

July 26, 2026: public changelog established

PlainCivil established this page to make future verified corrections and material methodology changes easier to trace. It does not represent a correction to a civil-fee record or a change to the underlying dataset.

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