Methodology & Limits
Official sources first
We show official Department of Corrections data first and label every date by type: Court sentence date, Projected eligibility date, or Official DOC date. Every data view shows when the official data was last updated.
Confidence labels
- Matches official data: copied directly from the official DOC file.
- Estimate: our reading of the law or our match of a statute code. Not a DOC determination.
- Not enough info: public data is missing something essential, so we show no number.
Why new-law estimates are paused
New-law estimates can't be validated until the Department of Corrections actually applies the law. Until then there is no official result to compare against. Key inputs (class level, lifetime §138(E) history including out-of-state and juvenile records, jail credit, consecutive-sentence structure, lost and restored credits) are not in public data. For now, estimate output for Oklahoma, Nevada and Texas is switched off with a per-state switch, and pages show "Estimates paused" instead.
Rules are versioned
Each state's rule records the statute citation, effective date, version, and last-verified date. Start-date changes found by our daily checks go to a human review queue before they appear on the site.
Data
- Nevada: NDOC public offender files (published daily).
- Oklahoma: ODOC public data extract (published quarterly; current file dated 10/05/2026). It has no projected release dates.
Records with problems are held back from display. If a data import fails, the previous good data stays up and we say so.
Known limits
- Consecutive sentences are not yet combined in our display.
- Our §138(E) code matching is documented in the offense-code audit, and some codes need review.
- Out-of-state, juvenile, expunged and deferred cases are uncertain under SB 1213.
Our response commitment: we acknowledge every error report within 2 business days and fix or publish a correction within 7 business days. Corrections are listed publicly in our corrections log.