The $4,808 Rulebook
Investigation · July 24, 2026
The official set sells for $4,808.31. On five sections sealed June 10, 2026, the free copy the State steers the public to carried 2021 stamps while New York’s own Register recorded 2026 adoptions.
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The New York Files →
How New York publishes its regulations: an exclusive contract, a price the State first withheld under FOIL’s trade-secret exemption, and a free public copy whose currency stamps — on the sections we captured and sealed June 10, 2026 — trailed the State’s own weekly Register by years.
Predicted to the Penny
Investigation · July 24, 2026
New York redacted the price of its own rulebook under FOIL’s trade-secret exemption. We derived it from the public record — and missed by one cent.
The FOIL investigation: the complete paper trail
Investigation · July 8, 2026 · Updated July 29, 2026
The records request, the 312 produced pages, the exclusive contract, the redactions, the appeal, and the reversal on the rates — with the contract, amendments, and every LawEngine filing attached.
Currency Watch
Evergreen · Updated as entries are verified
Named NYCRR sections where the State Register moved after the free copy’s “current through” stamp. Every row carries a receipt.
LawEngine is not the official NYCRR — it shows the source, the dates, and the Register receipt behind each claim. Titles 4, 9, 13, and 19 are open free without an account.
The Illinois Files →
The paper trail behind Illinois law: 163,006 bills and resolutions indexed, Public Acts linked to the statutes they changed, and nearly half a million legal citations and quotes examined across real court filings — surfacing more than 200 citations that cannot exist under Illinois’s own rules.
The Paper Trail
Investigation · July 25, 2026
163,006 bills and resolutions, 2.1 million official actions, and 88,962 version-level links from Public Acts into the compiled statutes (as of July 24, 2026) — rebuilt from official ILGA sources, with a receipt at every hop we publish.
Half a Million Checks
Investigation · July 25, 2026
492,581 legal citations and quotes examined across 14,997 real Illinois court filings — every result with a receipt. Plus: 221 citations found across 169 appellate records that cannot exist under Illinois’s own citation rule — one in the court’s own PDF header.