Terms of use
These terms cover your use of rulesandrecord.com, published by Field Assembly LLC, a Massachusetts limited liability company. There is no account to create, nothing to buy, and no subscription. You are reading a free publication, so these terms are correspondingly short, and the section that matters most is the second one.
Effective August 26, 2026.
What this site is
Rules & Record assembles each state's own published statements about special education dispute procedures: the procedural safeguards notice, the complaint routes, the offices that run them. Every page quotes those documents with two dates — the date the source itself carries and the date it was retrieved — links to the originals, records a review date and a named reviewer, and states absences as findings rather than passing over them.
The pages are free in full and stay that way. They are independent of every state education agency, school district, parent center, advocacy organization, and law firm named anywhere on this site.
What these pages are not
Read this section even if you skip the rest.
The state's own document governs, always. These pages quote what an agency published on a stated date. States revise their notices, timelines, addresses, and contacts, sometimes without notice and sometimes without changing the document's own date. A quotation that was exact when it was recorded can be stale by the time you read it. Every page links to the original for this reason. If a page here and the state's current document disagree, the state's document is what applies to you.
This is not legal advice, and we are not your lawyer, advocate, or representative. Reading these pages creates no professional relationship of any kind. Special education disputes carry real deadlines, and a missed deadline can end a case. Every date on these pages is quoted from a source, not calculated for your matter. The pages never determine which procedure governs your situation, never recommend arguments, and never predict outcomes.
If something important turns on it, verify it and get help. Check the linked original, call the office named on it, and where your child's placement, services, or eligibility is at stake, talk to a lawyer, an advocate, your parent training and information center, or an ombuds office. These pages exist to tell you what the rules say and where to find them, so that you can ask better questions. They do not exist to answer them for you.
Accuracy is taken seriously here and every page is re-verified on a stated cadence. Even so, no page is warranted to be complete, current, or correct, and it cannot be, because the documents underneath it are not ours.
Corrections
Corrections are made on the record. When something here is wrong, the page is fixed and the change log says what changed and when, rather than the page being edited silently.
If you find an error, write to hello@fieldassembly.net. A link to the state document you are reading it against is the most useful thing you can send. Please do not send your child's details; they are not needed to fix a page, and the privacy page explains why.
Using these pages
Read them, quote them, link to them, print them, and hand them to a family who needs them. Attribution is appreciated and a link is better than a citation, because it lets the next person check the sources for themselves.
Do not present these pages as your own, and do not republish them in a form that strips the source links, the dates, or the reviewer notes, because those are the parts that make them worth trusting.
Do not use automated means to overload the site. There is no other acceptable-use rule worth writing, because there is nothing here to abuse: no accounts, no uploads, no user content, and no way to reach anyone but us.
Copyright
The original writing, arrangement, and commentary on this site are © 2026 Field Assembly LLC, as are the Rules & Record name, wordmark, and site design.
The quoted passages are not ours. They belong to the agencies that published them and are quoted, with attribution and a link, for the purpose of reporting and commenting on what those agencies have said — the ordinary business of a reference work. Works published by state governments are generally not subject to copyright, though this varies by state.
Copyright questions and infringement notices are handled through Field Assembly's DMCA and copyright process.
Disclaimers and liability
The site is provided "as is," without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, or non-infringement.
To the fullest extent the law allows, Field Assembly LLC is not liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, or punitive damages arising from your use of the site or your reliance on anything in it.
Some states do not allow certain limitations, in which case the limitations above apply only as far as that state permits. Nothing here limits liability for fraud or for anything else that cannot lawfully be limited.
Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules.
Changes, and contact
These terms may be revised. The effective date at the top records when, and a material change will be described rather than slipped in.
Field Assembly LLC, Massachusetts, United States. hello@fieldassembly.net. Field Assembly's other works are governed by their own terms.