Taxonomy Continuity Record

The former policy taxonomy combined durable government-transparency subjects with a topic-specific UAP research bucket. This release removes that stale policy grouping without deleting legitimate public-records, oversight, surveillance, or civil-liberties questions.

What changed

Policy taxonomy is reserved for policy and governance proposals. Neutral explanations of records, classification, inspectors general, whistleblower channels, intelligence oversight, surveillance, warrants, congressional access, and related civil-liberties safeguards now live in Civic Clarity. Four topic-specific buckets are retired rather than promoted as policy categories.

Removed division: Government Secrecy and UAP Disclosure (div-07).
Removed section: Government Secrecy, Intelligence, and UAPs (S, key secrecy-uap).
Preserved as neutral Civic Clarity subjects: 21.
Retired as topic-specific policy buckets: 4.
Total source subsections accounted for exactly once: 25 of 25.

The machine-readable source of truth is taxonomy-continuity.json.

Complete topic-by-topic disposition

Former subsection	Disposition	Public continuity
`classification`	Preserved	Records, FOIA & Classification
`overclassification`	Preserved	Records, FOIA & Classification
`automatic-review`	Preserved	Records, FOIA & Classification
`declassification`	Preserved	Records, FOIA & Classification
`historical-records`	Preserved	Records, FOIA & Classification
`records-review`	Preserved	Records, FOIA & Classification
`national-security-exceptions`	Preserved	Records, FOIA & Classification
`whistleblowers`	Preserved	Oversight & Whistleblower Channels
`inspectors-general`	Preserved	Oversight & Whistleblower Channels
`intelligence-oversight`	Preserved	Oversight & Whistleblower Channels
`contractors`	Preserved	Oversight & Whistleblower Channels
`congressional-access`	Preserved	Oversight & Whistleblower Channels
`special-access-programs`	Preserved	Oversight & Whistleblower Channels
`surveillance`	Preserved	Surveillance & Civil Liberties
`warrants`	Preserved	Surveillance & Civil Liberties
`americans-information`	Preserved	Surveillance & Civil Liberties
`journalists`	Preserved	Surveillance & Civil Liberties
`attorneys`	Preserved	Surveillance & Civil Liberties
`political-organizations`	Preserved	Surveillance & Civil Liberties
`foreign-surveillance`	Preserved	Surveillance & Civil Liberties
`classified-domestic-technology`	Preserved	Surveillance & Civil Liberties
`uap-records`	Retired from policy taxonomy	An identified records request belongs in the general records guide without presuming the record or an underlying claim exists.
`sensor-evidence`	Retired from policy taxonomy	Sensor material is evidence only when source, authenticity, context, method, chain of custody, and limitations can be evaluated under the evidence method.
`unexplained-incidents`	Retired from policy taxonomy	“Unexplained” is an evidence-status description, not proof of any proposed cause.
`unsupported-claims`	Topic retired; rule preserved	Unsupported claims are not published as established fact under the Civic Clarity methodology.

Continuity rules

Removing a topic from the policy taxonomy is not a factual conclusion about the topic.
Public-record and declassification processes remain explainable without presuming that a requested record exists.
Oversight and whistleblower channels remain available without publishing an allegation as a finding.
Surveillance and civil-liberties questions remain subject to statutes, court records, official reports, oversight findings, and case-specific evidence.
Unexplained, unauthenticated, incomplete, or unsupported material remains labeled according to its actual evidence status.
Future policy proposals on classification, oversight, records access, or civil liberties must enter the normal proposal, legal, fiscal, editorial, and publication review process rather than reusing the retired bucket.

Verification contract

This continuity record is tested in three ways:

Every one of the 25 source subsections must appear exactly once in the machine-readable disposition map.
The policy taxonomy must not retain the removed UAP division, section, slug, key, or topic-specific subsections.
Every public Civic Clarity route must be included in the sitemap and exact-live content verifier on both public Fix USA domains.

Effective August 20, 2026. This page records a taxonomy and publication-boundary decision; it does not make a substantive finding about any historical incident or claim.