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No source, no sentence. Every factual line here names where it came from. If outlets disagree, you get both.
We never say someone is guilty. We report what is alleged, what is argued, and what gets decided. That is not a legal disclaimer, it is the whole job.
Rumour and record don't mix. Reader theories are amber wherever they appear. Upvotes don't promote them. Sources do.
Verdicts wait for two. A verdict becomes fact here when two independent newsrooms report it, not when the first one does.
Corrections stay visible. We fix things in place and say what changed. No quiet edits.
We cover the proceeding, not the grief. Nothing about a victim's last hours beyond what the charge itself requires.

Ask them. Conduct and institutions are fair game here — charging decisions, defence strategy, what a hospital missed, what investigators didn't chase. What we won't host is a crowd deciding a private person did it. That is how an innocent student got named as the Boston bomber, and how a professor with no connection to the Idaho murders ended up suing a TikTok sleuth. If scrutiny of someone is already on the record — a cross-examination, a filing, published reporting — bring it as evidence and it goes up with the source attached. Questions travel on facts, not names.

Software watches the newsrooms covering each case around the clock and pulls in their headlines, attributed and linked. The record itself — the day-by-day, the witness index, the boards — is written from that published reporting and from court documents, and every claim carries its source so you can check the work rather than trust us.

Yes, a lot of that is automated. We think that's the honest way to run a court record: a machine can re-read every source every fifteen minutes and never get bored on day nineteen, which is exactly when most coverage gets sloppy. What automation does not do here is decide anything that matters. A person signs off before this site states a verdict, a plea, or a sentence in its own voice. A person reviews every reader post that names someone. And nothing goes up as fact on a single source, ever.

If we get something wrong, tell us and we'll fix it in public with a note saying what changed. Tell us what's wrong — corrections are made in place, in public, with a note saying what changed. Every source, edit and change to this site is also public at github.com/evesloan/ourgavel if you want to read the receipts yourself.

OurGavel is independent. No court, no party, no newsroom has any say in what goes up. It is small and it is not pretending otherwise.

The site will carry advertising and analytics as it grows, and anything sponsored or affiliate-linked is labelled where it sits. None of it touches the record: no advertiser sees a case page before you do, and no paid link ever appears inside a board card.