How LawLert keeps its rules accurate

The method, in plain English

1. Every rule cites its source and carries a last-verified date. Both are printed on the rule itself — the statute, agency page or regulation it rests on, and the day a person last compared our wording with that source. Which government domains the sources are, by state, is on How we verify.
2. Rules are re-read against their source on a rolling cycle. Recurring sweeps re-open the cited source and compare it with the stored rule — time-sensitive categories (burn bans, fishing and hunting seasons, deadlines) more often. A re-read that finds nothing changed still refreshes the date; one that finds a real change updates the rule and publishes the change to What Changed and to the people tracking that law.
3. A rule not re-checked in 90 days is marked “re-check overdue” everywhere it appears. The buckets are the same on every page: checked within 30 days, within 90 days, or overdue. Overdue does not mean wrong, but it does mean unconfirmed — 36% of the rules we re-read since Oct 19, 2026 needed a correction. Until the next check lands, weigh the official source more than our summary.
4. Errors found are corrected and logged. When a re-check or a reader finds a rule that is wrong or out of date, the rule, its citation and its date are fixed, and every wording correction is listed in the public corrections log — what it said, what it says now, and the source. A change in the law itself is not a correction; it goes to What Changed and to the people tracking that law.
5. Reporting an error takes one form. Use the report-an-error form, the contact page or support@lawlertapp.com. The page address and what the official source says are enough; we re-verify against that source and correct anything that does not hold up.

By category

State-level rules only. “Within 90 d” is the share last checked 90 days ago or less; “oldest” is the earliest verification date still standing in that category.

County and city rules

Dry counties, local fireworks and cannabis-sales rules and local sales-tax rates, each citing the county or city code it comes from.

1,088 of 1,093 local rules are older than 90 days and carry the “re-check overdue” label where they appear. Oldest verification date May 31, 2026; newest Oct 25, 2026.

Fishing species rules

Per-species size, bag and season rules by state. Most of these still cite eRegulations, the publisher that produces several states’ official regulation digests, rather than the wildlife agency itself — accurate, but not the agency; the move to agency sources is in progress and described here.

1,255 of 1,442 fishing rules are older than 90 days and carry the “re-check overdue” label where they appear. Oldest verification date May 30, 2026; newest Nov 8, 2026.

International travel rules

Entry, customs, drug, medication, vaping, weapons, cash and driving rules for 81 countries, cited to the US State Department and each country’s own government sources.

604 of 1,077 country rules are older than 90 days and carry the “re-check overdue” label where they appear. Oldest verification date Jun 26, 2026; newest Nov 10, 2026.

What these numbers do and do not say

A verification date says when a person last compared our wording with the official source — not that the law has not changed since. Legislatures and agencies do not send us their changes; the rolling re-reads, plus a bill-tracking feed for pending legislation, are how changes are caught, and the gap between a change and our next read is the honest limit of a dated summary. The official source linked on each rule is the last word.

Related: where the rules come from · corrections log · what changed recently · open data