About this site
Federal law requires every state to publish the rules for special education disputes: a procedural safeguards notice, complaint procedures, the offices that run them. School district staff work those rules every week. A parent meets them once, mid-disagreement, usually through a thirty-page PDF handed over at a meeting and never read. This site exists to close that gap in the only way that doesn't create a new dependency: by making each state's own published statements findable, quoted, dated, and linked to the originals, at the moment a family discovers they need them.
How a state page is made
Every page is built from first-party sources only: the state education agency's own pages and documents, captured in full, with two dates recorded for each — the date the source itself carries and the date we retrieved it. Every quotation is verified mechanically against the captured source, character for character, before a page is finished; where a source document's own text carries artifacts, the quotations preserve them rather than tidying them. Where a state's own documents disagree with each other — two addresses, two filing emails — both versions are reproduced and the discrepancy is recorded, reconciled by no one. Where a state publishes nothing on a question, the page says so plainly, because an absence a family knows about is worth more than a guess. Each page carries a change log naming what was captured, what is pending, and a named human reviewer, with corrections made on the record.
The pages present potentially relevant official sources. They never determine which procedure governs a situation, never calculate deadlines, never recommend arguments, never predict outcomes, and never give legal advice. Every date is quoted from the sources, not a deadline calculation performed for you.
Who is, and isn't, behind this
This site is a project of Field Assembly LLC, an independent studio. It is not affiliated with, funded by, or reviewed by any state education agency, school district, parent center, advocacy organization, detector of any kind, or law firm. It sells no legal services and refers no one to any. The state pages are free in full and stay that way; paid products, when they exist, organize a family's own records and never gate the pages. Nothing about visitors is collected — no accounts, no intake, no analytics, no third-party requests of any kind.
Corrections: hello@fieldassembly.net. Corrections are made on the record, in the change log of the affected page.
This site is published at rulesandrecord.com. It was assembled under the working title Safeguards Index; the name Rules & Record is final as of August 25, 2026, and earlier references to the working title have been retired.