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A reporting surface for source-backed campus civil-rights records.
Campus Evidence Lab is a public-source archive that organizes campus civil-rights records into searchable event pages, school timelines, source pages, exports, and analysis memos. It is designed to help reporters and researchers inspect documented public records without turning them into rumor, rankings, safety scores, or prevalence claims.
What Campus Evidence Lab Is
- A source-backed archive of 4,000 public records tied to 947 schools.
- A public evidence layer with school pages, event pages, source pages, exports, briefs, and dataset snapshots.
- An open-source workflow with source audits, release artifacts, and reproducible static files.
What It Is Not
- Not a school ranking system.
- Not a campus safety score.
- Not a prevalence estimate for campus hate or discrimination.
- Not a substitute for reading the linked primary source material.
- Not a record of endorsement by outside reviewers or organizations.
Current Public Scale
- Records
- 4,000 public-source event records.
- Schools
- 947 schools represented in the current snapshot.
- Sources
- 25 public source collections in the current source index.
- Research briefs
- 31 published briefs and analysis memos tied to dataset snapshots.
Why Public-Source Evidence Infrastructure Matters
Campus civil-rights coverage is often scattered across agency releases, annual security reports, OCR materials, university statements, and public notices. Campus Evidence Lab turns those materials into structured public documentation so reporting can begin with linked records, visible limitations, and reproducible downloads rather than screenshots or hearsay.
What Outside Reviewers Are Being Asked To Audit
- Methodology rules for inclusion, exclusion, source hierarchy, verification, privacy, and no-ranking boundaries.
- Source-to-record accuracy on a small sample.
- Classification choices for event categories and affected-community labels.
- Research-guide language that could still invite overclaiming.
Useful Entry Points
- Methodology
- Reviewer Brief
- Trust & Review Packet
- Downloads
- Research Guide
- Briefs index
- Journalist Use Guide
Start Here By Task
- Investigate one school
- Start in Schools, open the dossier, inspect the linked event pages, then read the source pages before requesting institutional comment.
- Build a reporting packet
- Use the Research Workspace to gather records, cite the current snapshot, and export a local markdown or JSON packet.
- Audit the dataset
- Use Downloads, the Quality page, and the Trust & Review Packet to inspect hashes, audits, changelog artifacts, and public-use limits.