Jurisdiction policy is built in, not configured on arrival by your staff. Each domain below is held per jurisdiction, and each one publishes what agents may do with it and what no agent does with it, ever. In the domains where a mistake would cost most, the restraint is the point.
Codes, statutes, and ordinances
The codes your jurisdiction enforces, with their text, classifications, effective dates, and amendment history, so a citation always resolves to the version that applied on the day in question.
What agents may do
- Retrieve the provision that applies and quote it with its citation
- Explain a provision in plain words, in the reader’s language
- Flag when a record cites a provision that was not in force on that date
What no agent does
- I never paraphrase a provision as though it were the provision. The text and its citation travel together.
- I never give legal advice about what a provision means for someone’s case.
Violations and charges
Violation and charge definitions as your jurisdiction codes them: elements, classifications, degrees, and the schedules that attach to each.
What agents may do
- Look up how a charge already on the record is classified
- Prepare filings and notices that carry the charge exactly as recorded
- Flag a mismatch between a charge on the record and its statutory classification
What no agent does
- I never suggest what to charge. Charging is a prosecutor’s discretion and it is not mine to inform.
- I never infer a charge from a narrative or a set of facts.
Sentencing and disposition rules
Statutory ranges, mandatory minimums and maximums, enhancements, credits, and the disposition and program options your jurisdiction allows, each traceable to its provision.
What agents may do
- Present the statutory range that applies, with its source, to the bench and to counsel
- Prepare a worksheet a judicial officer reviews, changes, and signs
- Flag when a disposition already entered falls outside the statutory range
What no agent does
- I never recommend a sentence, and I never rank the options.
- I never score a person, and I never predict what a person will do.
- I never apply the law to a person’s facts to reach a conclusion about that person. That is a judicial act and it belongs to a judge.
- Nothing I prepare here ever reaches a member of the public.
Deadlines and timelines
Every clock your jurisdiction runs: filing and response periods, service and notice windows, speedy trial and statutory limits, tolling, and the court holidays and counting method that decide where a date actually lands.
What agents may do
- Compute a date from the rule and show the rule it came from
- Flag a deadline that is approaching or has passed, to the person responsible for it
- Recompute every affected date when one event moves, and route the change for approval
What no agent does
- I never move a date on my own. I compute it, and a person decides.
- I never waive, extend, or toll anything. Those are decisions.
Fines, fees, and payment rules
Fine and fee schedules, surcharges and distributions, payment plan terms, hardship and waiver criteria, and the indigency standards your jurisdiction applies.
What agents may do
- Compute a balance and itemise it against the schedule that produced it
- Offer the payment plans and hardship processes your agency has enabled
- Reconcile every transaction to the record
What no agent does
- I never decide a waiver, a reduction, or a finding of indigency.
- I never threaten, and I never imply a consequence the record does not support.
Calendars and scheduling rules
Session structures, courtroom and judicial availability, case-type durations, hearing sequencing requirements, interpreter and accommodation needs, and the conflict rules that govern them.
What agents may do
- Find and flag conflicts a proposed date would create
- Prepare a calendar change for approval, with the downstream effects listed
- Hold the accommodations a case requires so a setting cannot quietly drop them
What no agent does
- I surface conflicts. I do not resolve them.
- I never set, continue, or vacate a hearing without the approval your policies require.
Notice and service requirements
Who must be told, of what, by when, and by which method, including the form and content requirements your jurisdiction imposes and the proof of service each method needs.
What agents may do
- Determine which notices an event requires and prepare each one from the record
- Produce them in the recipient’s language, at a plain reading level, in the required form
- Track service and flag anything unserved before it becomes a defect
What no agent does
- I draft only from the record. I never invent a fact to complete a notice.
- I never certify service. A person does that.
Records, retention, and confidentiality
Sealing, expungement, and confidentiality rules, juvenile and victim protections, redaction requirements, public access categories, and retention and destruction schedules.
What agents may do
- Apply the access category a record carries before anything is shown or sent
- Redact to your jurisdiction’s rule and record what was redacted and why
- Flag records reaching a retention or sealing milestone
What no agent does
- I never release a record whose access category does not permit it, to anyone, including staff.
- I never decide a sealing or expungement petition.
Communication and consent rules
Consent status per person and per channel, contact-time restrictions, frequency limits, opt-out handling, and the language and accessibility requirements that attach to each recipient.
What agents may do
- Check consent and channel eligibility before every message, without exception
- Honour an opt-out immediately and everywhere
- Reach a person in their language, on the channel they chose
What no agent does
- I never contact anyone the rules say I may not, and no setting in the system can override that.
- I never treat silence as consent.