Corrections

Citing sources is easy to claim. What separates a reference you can rely on from one you cannot is what happens when it is wrong. This page is the record.

Telling us about an error

Send three things to our contact address: the page, what it says, and what you believe the correct figure is. A link to the statute or agency page is ideal but not required — if you know a number is wrong, say so and we will find the source ourselves.

What we do with it: we re-read the primary source, not your message and not our own note. If the page is wrong we fix it, update the checked date, and add it below. If the page turns out to be right we will tell you why, with the citation. Either way you get an answer.

Corrected after publishing

Errors that were live on the site before we found them.

1. September 27, 2026

   Arkansas — cost of a crash report copy

   The page gave a flat $10 for a copy of the police report. Arkansas charges $10 only if you were involved in the crash; anyone else pays $25 (Ark. Code § 27-53-210(b)). We had also been citing a 2024 mirror of the code rather than the current text, which is how the 2025 increase was missed. The figure and the source were both replaced.

2. September 23, 2026

   Privacy page described a consent flow that did not exist

   The privacy page said visitors in the EEA, the UK and Switzerland are asked for advertising consent through a consent message. No consent message was running. The sentence was rewritten to say what is actually true: the site does not show one, and Google does not serve personalised ads where consent is required without it.

3. September 22, 2026

   Stray characters inside premium tables

   A line ending leaked out of the premium data file and rendered as an invisible gap inside year labels — “2019 ,” instead of “2019”. The data loader and the file writer were both fixed, and the build now fails if the character ever appears in a published page again.

Caught before publishing

Every state is written by one person and then checked against the primary sources by another, who does not see the first one's notes. These never reached the site. They are here because the kind of error a review catches tells you more about a reference than the ones it misses.

1. October 2, 2026

   Louisiana — reinstatement fees had doubled

   The draft carried $100 / $200 / $300, taken from the state's own statute page and from the motor vehicle office's fee page. Both were out of date: Act 179 of 2026 raised them to $200 / $400 / $600 effective 1 August 2026. Only the enrolled act showed it. This is the case the whole site exists for — the official pages themselves were wrong.

2. September 27, 2026

   Colorado — a fine that would have read as open-ended

   A second offense for driving uninsured was stored as a $1,000 minimum with no ceiling, which the page would have rendered as “At least $1,000”. The offense class caps the fine at $1,000, so the correct reading is a flat $1,000 — and the court may suspend up to half of it on proof of insurance, which the draft note denied.

3. September 27, 2026

   Colorado — how no-fault actually ended

   The draft said a 2003 bill repealed the no-fault act. The act expired on its own sunset clause set the year before; the 2003 bill started the replacement scheme on the same day. The outcome was right and the mechanism was wrong, which matters on a site whose whole claim is that it reads the law rather than summaries of it.

4. September 27, 2026

   Alabama — an amendment described backwards

   A 2025 amendment was summarised as easing the rules for out-of-state vehicles. It did the opposite: it deleted the exemption that had kept those vehicles outside the mandatory insurance chapter entirely.

5. September 27, 2026

   Minnesota — “cannot be declined” was too absolute

   The draft said no Minnesota driver can decline any part of the no-fault package. A person 65 or older, or 60 and retired on a pension, may decline the income-loss half.

6. September 27, 2026

   South Carolina — the wrong bill described

   A note said two bills would have doubled the state minimums. Only one would have; the other adds a $150,000 limit for bodily injury resulting in death and leaves the minimums alone.

Changes in the law are not corrections

When a legislature changes a rule, the old figure was not an error — it was the law at the time. Those moves are recorded separately, with their effective dates and the session law behind them, in the change feed. Figures that have passed but not yet taken effect are carried as pending values and switch on the morning they come into force.

This page was last reviewed October 20, 2026.