RESOURCE ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT · STAGING

Help us find the records we missed.

People with technical, regulatory, utility, financial, planning, engineering, legal, or local knowledge can point our researchers toward records, errors, or questions worth investigating.

A submission is a research lead, not a fact. RAP independently verifies material before incorporating findings into public research.

You may submit information without identifying yourself. This staging page is a design preview and is not yet a secure submission endpoint.

Point to a record

Tell us which docket, agreement, tariff, permit, meeting, parcel, filing or database to search.

Flag a question

Identify something about water, power, rates, infrastructure, incentives or policy that deserves verification.

Correct our work

Show us a calculation, source, identity, geography or interpretation we may have wrong.

Provide expertise

Explain a technical issue and tell us how we can independently verify it.

Research intake preview

Project / facility

Project or facility name, if known

Location

City, county, state or watershed

Organization / utility / government

Entity involved, if known

What should we investigate?

Describe the lead. Specific dates, aliases and record names are especially useful.

What kind of record might exist?

☐ Water ☐ Electric ☐ Utility rates ☐ Tax incentive ☐ Development agreement
☐ Land ☐ Permit ☐ Infrastructure ☐ Bond / financing ☐ Policy / vote ☐ Regulatory filing

Where should we look?

Docket number, meeting date, agency, database, parcel, agreement or other locator

How could we independently verify this?

Tell researchers what record would confirm or disprove the point.

How are you helping?

☐ I know where a public record is located
☐ I have technical expertise
☐ I have direct knowledge
☐ I noticed a discrepancy in RAP research
☐ I have a document

What happens next

SUBMISSION ↓ QUARANTINE / TRIAGE ↓ INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION ↓ EVIDENCE VAULT ↓ FACT REGISTRY GUARD ↓ RED TEAM ↓ PUBLICATION — only if supported

There is no direct path from a confidential submission to the public Fact Registry.

Evidence rules

Anonymous allegation ≠ factDirect knowledge ≠ verified evidenceSubmitted document ≠ authenticated documentMissing record ≠ concealmentConfidentiality ≠ wrongdoingRate increase after project ≠ causationUNKNOWN stays UNKNOWN

Source protection

RAP should not promise perfect anonymity from an ordinary website form. A production intake system should minimize unnecessary identity collection, segregate contact information from research content, avoid exposing submissions through analytics or public APIs, and use a separately reviewed secure channel for genuinely high-risk sources.

Do not submit passwords, credentials, classified material, unlawfully obtained material, privileged attorney-client communications, unrelated personal information, or material whose disclosure could endanger a person.