Safety & boundaries

Locus is a retrieval tool for cited public records. The boundary below is stated once and enforced in code — not repeated as a disclaimer on every record.

Locus does not

• Score, rank, or compare places.
• Predict or forecast anything about a place.
• Value property or give “good deal” / investment opinions.
• Screen — no tenant, employment, insurance, lending, or eligibility decisions. Locus is not a consumer report.
• Label a place, block, or neighborhood safe, unsafe, dangerous, good, or bad.
• Give individualized legal advice.

Personal data

• No person data. No names of owners, arrestees, suspects, victims, minors, or witnesses; no mugshots; no exact victim/suspect addresses; no scraped profiles; no dossiers.
• Reported ≠ proven. An arrest or incident record is a report at a point in time, not a charge, conviction, or statement about actual conditions.
• Absence is not evidence. No records does not mean nothing happened — it can reflect under-reporting.

Why

Locus’s value is that an agent or person can trust what it returns because it is cited official record, with the source attached. The moment it drifts into a verdict, a valuation, or a claim about a person, it stops being that — and recurring record-tracking emails would amplify any such drift. So the boundary is enforced deterministically, and refusals return the cited records Locus can provide plus what to verify next.

Full policy: the project’s SAFETY_AND_POLICY.md.