Editorial Policy

LandBrief publishes other people’s records — the assessment rolls of county governments — at a scale where no person can read every page. These are the rules the site operates under so that scale does not become an excuse.

Every number has a source

A figure appears on this site only if it is a county’s own record or a computation from county records that the methodology page describes. Pages are assembled by software; the software may only arrange and compute, never invent. No statistic is produced by a language model. Where a county did not record something, the page omits it or says so — a blank is a blank, not a gap to be filled.

What we withhold

We withhold data we can show to be wrong: recorded acreage totals that exceed what a county physically contains, rankings that would silently be drawn from a fraction of a county, records from deliveries whose contents do not match what they claim to be. The tests are described in the methodology, and they are deliberately conservative — improbable data publishes, impossible data does not. Withholding is always visible: a county whose acreage we suppress says so on its pages.

Corrections

If our processing introduced an error — a parcel in the wrong city, a total that does not match its parts, a name mangled on the way in — report it through the contact page and we will fix it in the site’s data. If the error is in the county’s own roll, we cannot rewrite the public record, but where our checks can detect the problem we will withhold the figure rather than keep republishing it. Either way you will get an answer about which case it is.

Privacy and removal

Parcel ownership is a public record, and the site reflects it. Requests concerning personal information — including removal requests — are handled as the privacy policy describes, through the contact page. There is no fee for a removal request and no way to pay for one to be expedited, declined, or reversed.

Advertising does not touch the records

The site is supported by advertising. Advertisers do not see content before anyone else, cannot pay to change, promote, or remove a record or a ranking, and are not told who looks at what. Ads are visually distinct from the records. If a page ever carries sponsored content, it will be labelled as such — as of this policy’s writing, none does.

Updates to this policy

This policy changes only by being rewritten here, and the site’s conduct is checkable against it: the methodology page documents the suppression rules it promises, and the data sources page shows the coverage it claims.