# Submission Terms Campus Evidence Lab accepts public submissions to support and improve the accuracy, completeness, and fairness of its archive of campus-related public-source records. These Submission Terms govern all submissions made through GitHub issue templates, GitHub pull requests, the site's structured submit page, or any other channel Campus Evidence Lab designates for submissions. By submitting material to Campus Evidence Lab, you agree to these terms. ## 1. Public-Source-Only Submissions Campus Evidence Lab accepts only material drawn from public sources. A submission must point to, quote, or summarize information that is already publicly accessible, such as published news coverage, public statements, public court filings, public regulatory or institutional records, or other material that a member of the public could independently locate and verify. Campus Evidence Lab does not accept, and will not incorporate, material obtained from private, confidential, or non-public sources, regardless of how the submitter obtained it or the submitter's intentions in sharing it. ## 2. Accepted Submission Types Campus Evidence Lab accepts the following categories of submissions: - **Source submissions**: proposed new public-source records or documents for inclusion in the archive. - **Correction requests**: requests to correct factual errors in existing records. - **Duplicate reports**: notices that a record duplicates an existing entry. - **School metadata corrections**: requests to correct or update institutional metadata associated with a school record. - **Methodology feedback**: comments, critiques, or suggestions regarding the project's data model, review tiers, or evidentiary standards. - **Reviewer checklists**: structured review notes or checklist submissions intended to support the internal review process. Campus Evidence Lab may decline to act on a submission that does not fit one of these categories or that does not include sufficient information to be evaluated. ## 3. Prohibited Submissions Submitters must not submit, attach, quote, or otherwise include any of the following: - private testimony or first-hand accounts not already made public by the person who provided them; - private screenshots, including screenshots of private conversations, private accounts, or private platforms; - direct messages or other private communications; - private contact information, including personal phone numbers, personal email addresses, or home addresses; - sensitive personal information, including health information, financial information, immigration status, or similarly sensitive categories of data; - material intended to identify, locate, or expose a private individual (doxxing); - confidential records, including records subject to a non-disclosure agreement, a protective order, a sealed proceeding, or an internal institutional confidentiality policy; - unsupported allegations that are not tied to a verifiable public source; and - any material the submitter does not have the right to share, including copyrighted material submitted without authorization or license to do so. Campus Evidence Lab will remove or decline to publish any submission that violates this section upon discovery, and may take further action as described in Section 11. ## 4. Submitter Responsibility By submitting material, the submitter represents and warrants that: - the material is accurate to the best of the submitter's knowledge; - the material is drawn from a public source, and the submitter has provided a working source URL or an equivalent, verifiable public reference; - the submitter has provided sufficient context for the material to be understood and evaluated on its own terms; - the material does not violate Section 3; and - the submitter has the right to submit the material, including any rights necessary under applicable copyright, contract, or other law. The submitter is solely responsible for the accuracy and lawfulness of what they submit. Campus Evidence Lab does not independently verify a submission's accuracy before it is reviewed, and inclusion of a submission in the review queue is not confirmation of its accuracy. ## 5. License to Use Submitted Material By submitting material to Campus Evidence Lab, the submitter grants Campus Evidence Lab a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual license to review, store, quote, summarize, publish, transform, reject, archive, and link the submitted material, in whole or in part, as part of the project's dataset, generated public pages, review logs, correction logs, release notes, and snapshot manifests. This license survives any later request by the submitter to withdraw or delete the submission, except to the extent Campus Evidence Lab agrees to a correction or redaction under Section 9. This license does not transfer ownership of any underlying rights the submitter may hold in the submitted material. Dataset files remain subject to the project's Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license, or a stricter limit where a source requires it. Software remains subject to the project's MIT license. ## 6. Public Visibility of GitHub Activity Submissions made through GitHub issue templates or GitHub pull requests are public by default. This includes the content of the issue or pull request, any comments, any linked material, and the GitHub username of the submitter. Submitters should not include any material in a GitHub issue or pull request that they do not intend to make public, including material otherwise prohibited under Section 3. ## 7. No Guarantee of Outcome Submitting material to Campus Evidence Lab does not guarantee that the material will be reviewed within any particular timeframe, accepted, published, or, once published, kept published. Campus Evidence Lab may decline a submission, delay action on a submission, or remove previously published material at its discretion, including in response to new information, a correction request, a right-of-reply submission, or a change in the project's review standards. ## 8. Human Review and Record Tiers No submission is published as a higher-tier public record without human review. Records in the archive may carry different review tiers, including imported public source, source-family checked, internally certified, and externally reviewed. A submission may initially appear at a lower tier with clear limits noted, and will only advance to a higher tier after the relevant human review has been completed. Artificial intelligence may assist with triage as described in Section 12, but AI does not independently publish a record and does not substitute for the human review required to reach a higher-tier status. ## 9. Corrections and Redactions Anyone, including submitters, subjects of a record, and third parties, may request a correction or redaction through a GitHub issue template or the site's structured submit page. Correction requests should identify the specific record at issue, the specific factual claim disputed, and supporting public-source material where available. Campus Evidence Lab will review correction and redaction requests and may correct, annotate, restrict, or remove a record in response. Campus Evidence Lab is not obligated to make a requested correction or redaction and will evaluate each request against the project's evidentiary standards and core limits. ## 10. Institutional Right of Reply Schools and other named institutions may submit a right-of-reply through a GitHub issue template or the site's structured submit page. A right-of-reply submission should identify the specific record at issue and provide the institution's response, context, or supporting public-source material. Campus Evidence Lab will review right-of-reply submissions and may incorporate the institution's response, link it alongside the record, or otherwise reflect it in the record's presentation, consistent with the project's evidentiary standards and core limits. Submission of a right-of-reply does not guarantee removal, alteration, or any particular outcome for the underlying record. ## 11. Misuse and Bad-Faith Submissions Campus Evidence Lab may reject, remove, or disregard any submission made in bad faith, including submissions that are knowingly false, submitted to harass or intimidate an individual or institution, submitted to circumvent Section 3, submitted repeatedly after rejection without new supporting material, or submitted using automated or coordinated means to distort the review process. Campus Evidence Lab may restrict a submitter's ability to make further submissions in response to misuse. ## 12. AI-Assisted Triage Disclosure Campus Evidence Lab may use artificial intelligence to assist with extraction, summarization, duplicate detection, and drafting in connection with submitted material. AI-assisted output is treated as a draft input to the human review process described in Section 8. AI does not independently publish a submission as a record, and AI assistance does not replace the human review required before a record reaches a higher-tier status. ## 13. No Legal Advice or Legal Finding Nothing in these Submission Terms, and no record, page, export, or communication produced by Campus Evidence Lab, constitutes legal advice or a legal finding. The dataset is not a ranking, a school safety score, a prevalence estimate, a severity score, an endorsement, or a complete census of campus civil-rights incidents. Submitters and readers should not rely on the archive as a substitute for independent legal judgment or professional advice.