When state power is used against citizens, who authorised it?

Not whether it happened, not whether it was justified. Who signed the order, or gave it aloud, and what record exists of that. Everything on this site is organised around getting to a document that answers it.

If you open an investigation you will see black Unknown blocks where a date, an injury figure or a named official would normally sit. That is not a page that failed to load.

A claim without a source does not render as a fact here, including in our own starting data. Where we have not established something, the site says so rather than filling the space with a plausible reconstruction.

These six words carry the site's credibility. A claim cannot appear without one, and moving a claim between them requires a document.

The chain of command maps who is empowered to decide what. That is a statement about law and administrative structure. Whether a particular office actually authorised a particular action is a different claim, and it needs a document.

The interface keeps them in two separate boxes and never merges them:

Nothing on this site is allowed to skip a link in this chain:

A source record is created first, because nothing can cite what does not exist. An evidence record points at that source and carries two written lines: what it establishes, and what it does not. Only then can a claim move off UNKNOWN, listing the evidence IDs that carry it.

Every evidence item keeps a permanent ID like WGO-0001. Claims cite the ID rather than restating the document, so you are always one click from the thing itself.

Every evidence record answers two questions, and the second is the harder one.

Every gap is written as a specific question with a status, and each names the document that would answer it. The gap list is the whole backlog in one table.

When we request a document, the RTI register starts a clock. Filing a statutory information request puts a public office on a deadline, and the register shows that deadline running:

You do not have to take any of this on trust.

• The editorial console is public. It runs integrity checks on every page load and shows what the archive currently fails.
• Every change to every record is retained with its date and its reason. The repository is private for now, because it also holds which offices are about to be asked for what. The evidence data is available on request, so the working can be checked by anyone who asks for it.
• The government response page puts our evidence, the official account and the unanswered questions in three columns, and never collapses them into a verdict.
• Every record carries a report an error route. Corrections are logged with the date and the reason.

The archive fills up one document at a time, and most of them are held by ordinary people rather than by anyone in particular.

• If you hold something — a photograph off the device that took it, a notice, a reply from an office — send it. Nothing you send goes live automatically.
• If you can file a request — pick a line off the gap list and file it yourself. Send us the reference number and we will track the clock publicly, under your name or anonymously.
• If you have published on this already — send the link and it goes in the index of other people's work, credited to you.