Corrections and Accuracy Policy
Effective: To be set upon final approval and publication.
Draft Status: This policy is draft v0.1, pending legal review and formal adoption. It has not been attorney-reviewed and has not been formally approved.
1. Our Commitment to Accuracy
Florida Principles PAC is committed to publishing accurate civic information, organizational facts, and public content. When we learn of a material error in our public content, we correct it promptly and document the correction.
This policy describes how we receive, review, and act on correction requests, and what you can expect when you report a concern.
2. Scope
This policy applies to:
- PoliticalPedia civic information responses and structured data, including official and district information, bills and legislation, election information, and AI-assisted responses
- Candidate profiles and endorsement-related content
- PAC news, statements, and public announcements
- Transparency documents and financial summaries
- Public policy pages on this website
- Translations of Site content into supported languages
- Political advertising published by the PAC, including factual claims in paid communications
- Governance and public-document corrections for formally published PAC public documents
This policy does not cover disputes about editorial judgment, opinion, or PAC positions. It also does not cover content on third-party websites or platforms we do not control.
3. Types of Corrections
We distinguish between different types of inaccuracies:
- Material factual error: An error that could reasonably affect public understanding, attribution, status, or a civic decision. These are corrected promptly and noted publicly where appropriate.
- Outdated information: Information that was accurate when published but has since changed (for example, a change in officeholder, district boundary, election result, or bill status). These are updated when identified.
- Wrong official or district: Information attributing a district, officeholder, or civic role to the wrong person or geography. These are treated as material factual errors.
- Source problem: A citation, link, or source attribution that is broken, incorrect, or misleading. These are corrected as part of routine maintenance or upon report.
- Translation error: An inaccuracy, omission, or misleading rendering in a translated version of Site content. Translation errors are treated as material factual errors where they materially misrepresent the underlying content.
- AI response error: An error in a PoliticalPedia AI-assisted response, including hallucinated details, incorrect attribution, or outdated information. AI response errors reported by users are given priority review.
- Technical defect: A technical problem with a page, feature, or data presentation that causes incorrect information to be displayed. These are fixed as maintenance issues.
- Clarification: A revision that improves precision or clarity without changing the underlying fact. These may be made without a formal correction notice.
- Disputed interpretation: Where reasonable people disagree about a factual conclusion. These are reviewed but may not result in a change if the original presentation is supportable.
4. AI-Assisted Content and PoliticalPedia
PoliticalPedia responses are generated using structured civic data and deterministic processes in the current V1 release. Even so, civic data can be outdated, incomplete, or reflect contested boundary or officeholder information.
When AI-assisted response capability is active in a future release, AI-generated responses may contain additional types of errors: misunderstandings of the question, hallucinated details, or confident-sounding statements about uncertain facts. Reported errors in AI-assisted content will be given priority review.
5. How to Report an Error
To report a suspected factual error, please contact us through the Contact page at floridaprinciplespac.org/contact. When submitting a report, please categorize the type of issue to the extent possible:
- Incorrect information — Information that is factually wrong
- Outdated information — Information that was accurate but has changed
- Wrong official or district — Incorrect attribution of a representative, district, or civic role
- Source problem — A broken, incorrect, or misleading citation or link
- Translation problem — An error, omission, or misleading rendering in a translated version
- AI response problem — An error or concern about a PoliticalPedia AI-assisted response
- Technical bug — A technical problem causing incorrect display or behavior
- Accessibility issue — A barrier preventing access to content or features
- Other — Any concern not fitting the above categories
Your report should also include:
- The page, feature, or content where the issue appears
- The specific claim or element you believe is incorrect
- The correct information or an authoritative source supporting it, if available
- Your contact information if you would like a response
You do not need to submit your contact information to make a report, but including it allows us to follow up with you.
6. What Happens After You Report
After we receive a corrections report, we will:
- Acknowledge receipt when you provide contact information
- Triage the report to assess whether a material error may exist
- Review the claim against available sources and internal records
- Make a correction, clarification, or no-change determination
- Document the decision and its basis
- Notify you of the outcome when you provided contact information and the review is complete
We aim to complete reviews of reported material errors in a timely manner. Complex civic data questions may take longer.
7. How Corrections Are Published
When we correct a material factual error in public content:
- The correction will be reflected in the content itself
- Where a correction note is appropriate, we will add one identifying what changed and when
- We do not silently revise material public records where a correction note is warranted
Clarifications and technical fixes may be made without a formal correction notice.
8. What We Will Not Do
- We will not remove accurate public information because it is unflattering
- We will not suppress civic data because a subject of that data disagrees with the presentation
- We will not retroactively alter public records to remove evidence of prior positions or statements without noting the change
9. Correction Channel Conduct
The corrections contact channel is for good-faith factual error reports. The following are not appropriate uses of the corrections channel:
- Harassment or threats directed at PAC personnel
- Demands to remove accurate public information
- Spam or impersonation
- Requests to alter officially adopted governance documents
10. Appeals
If you submitted a correction request and believe the response was incomplete or incorrect, you may request additional review through the Contact page. Please include your original report, the response you received, and the reason you believe further review is warranted.
11. Related Policies
- AI Usage and Disclosure Policy
- Privacy Policy
- Terms of Use
- Transparency Center
12. Changes to This Policy
We may update this policy from time to time. Material changes will be reflected by an updated effective date.
13. Contact
To report a factual error or request a correction, please use the Contact page at floridaprinciplespac.org/contact.