source_id: source-legislative-council

source_family: Michigan Legislature records

issuing_organization: Michigan Legislative Council and Legislative Service Bureau

content_classes: calendars; journals; bills and resolutions; bill status; votes

published_surface: Structured facts, identifiers, official links, hashes, and bounded evidence excerpts appear in the public database. Full official documents are linked rather than republished.

redistribution_scope: Metadata, factual observations, project classifications, hashes, and short source-located excerpts only. No grant to redistribute the underlying official documents is asserted.

rights_basis: MCL 4.1204 through 4.1204f require Internet availability while expressly preserving State copyright and other proprietary interests.

attribution_text: Source: Michigan Legislature. This independent project is not an official State of Michigan publication.

notes: Internet availability and fee-free access are not treated as an open license. Final publication policy requires legal review.


source_id: source-house

source_family: Michigan House records and media

issuing_organization: Michigan House of Representatives

canonical_domains: house.mi.gov, www.house.mi.gov

content_classes: member profiles; schedules; committee meetings; minutes; agendas; testimony; audio and video

published_surface: Structured facts, official links, hashes, media metadata, and project-generated transcript search text appear in the public database. Source documents and recordings are not included as bulk artifacts.

redistribution_scope: Metadata, factual observations, hashes, and links may be published. Document bodies, recordings, and derived transcript redistribution remain pending source-specific review.

rights_basis: No source-wide open license was located. Legislative Council Act provisions preserve State interests in legislative information, and some committee files contain third-party submissions.

attribution_text: Source: Michigan House of Representatives. Linked materials remain subject to their source-specific rights.

notes: The register does not assume that House-hosted content is wholly government-authored or freely redistributable.


source_id: source-senate

source_family: Michigan Senate records and media

issuing_organization: Michigan Senate

content_classes: committee schedules; minutes; agendas; testimony; committee audio; member and chamber information

rights_basis: The official Senate disclaimer describes the site as a public service but states Copyright 2026, all rights reserved, and warns that some content comes from external sources.

attribution_text: Source: Michigan Senate. This independent project is not endorsed by the Senate.

notes: Third-party testimony and attachments require a separate authorship review even when hosted by the Senate.


source_id: source-caucus-member-sites

source_family: Caucus and member-office websites

issuing_organization: Legislative caucus or individual member office

canonical_domains: gophouse.org, housedems.com, senatedems.com, www.senator*.com

content_classes: member profile pages; office contact links; portrait image links

published_surface: Public member and service records retain source profile URLs and portrait-image URLs. The project does not include local copies of those pages or images in release artifacts.

redistribution_scope: Link and factual identity/service metadata only. Page text, branding, and images are not approved for republication without source-specific permission or another applicable legal basis.

rights_basis: Caucus and member-branded websites do not share a single observed open license, and may contain party, campaign, photographer, or vendor material distinct from official legislative records.

attribution_text: Member profile or image linked to the publishing caucus or member office; no endorsement is implied.

notes: The pipeline should eventually record publisher and license terms per profile/image URL rather than relying on this conservative family default.


source_id: source-youtube

source_family: YouTube-hosted legislative media

issuing_organization: Video uploader and YouTube

canonical_domains: youtube.com, www.youtube.com

content_classes: House and Senate recordings hosted on YouTube

published_surface: Video identifiers, titles, official source links, durations, proceeding associations, and project-generated transcript search text appear in the public database. Video files are not redistributed.

redistribution_scope: Link and metadata only for the hosted recording. Downloaded media and full derived transcripts are not approved for redistribution unless a specific upload is separately licensed or permission is obtained.

rights_basis: YouTube's standard terms restrict downloading, reproducing, and distributing content except through service features, permission, or applicable law. Individual uploads may instead use CC BY.

attribution_text: Source recording linked through YouTube; rights remain with the uploader and applicable rights holders.

notes: The pipeline does not currently preserve a per-video YouTube license observation; therefore it applies the conservative default.


source_id: source-castus

source_family: CASTUS-hosted legislative media

issuing_organization: Michigan Senate or House media publisher and CASTUS

content_classes: House and Senate recordings hosted through CASTUS

published_surface: Video identifiers, titles, source links, durations, proceeding associations, and project-generated transcript search text appear in the public database. Video files are not redistributed.

redistribution_scope: Link and metadata only for the hosted recording. Downloaded media and full derived transcripts remain pending publisher and platform review.

rights_basis: No source-specific open license or affirmative redistribution grant was located during review.

attribution_text: Source recording linked through the official legislative publisher's CASTUS service; no endorsement is implied.

notes: Obtain publisher/platform confirmation before distributing recordings or full transcripts derived from them.


source_id: source-third-party-submissions

source_family: Third-party committee submissions

issuing_organization: Individual submitting organization or author

content_classes: written testimony; slide decks; letters; reports; attachments

published_surface: Document metadata, official links, content classifications, measure relations, and reviewed member attributions appear in the public database. Normalized bodies are withheld.

redistribution_scope: Metadata, factual relations, hashes, and links only. Full text and files are excluded until authorship and permission are established.

rights_basis: Hosting by a legislative body does not establish government authorship or a license from the submitting author.

attribution_text: Source document linked from the relevant Michigan House or Senate committee record; rights may belong to the submitting author.

notes: This family is separated from government-authored minutes and agendas because the rights analysis differs.


source_id: source-project-transcripts

source_family: Project-generated automated transcripts

issuing_organization: Michigan Legislative Activity Ledger research project

canonical_domains: local research pipeline

content_classes: automated speech-to-text segments; timestamps; model metadata

published_surface: Transcript segments and timestamps are available for search and API inspection in the public SQLite read model. No standalone transcript bulk package is published.

redistribution_scope: Publication is provisional and source-dependent. Do not redistribute full transcripts until the underlying recording rights and legal basis are reviewed.

rights_basis: The transcript files are project-generated, but they are derived from recordings whose source-specific rights are not uniformly resolved.

attribution_text: Automated transcript generated by the Michigan Legislative Activity Ledger; verify against the linked source recording.

notes: Automated text can contain recognition, timing, and speaker errors. Search access is not a representation that reuse rights are cleared.


source_id: source-project-compilation

source_family: Project-created compilation and measures

canonical_domains: mi-legislature-data release artifacts

content_classes: public identifiers; normalized relations; evidence states; metrics; coverage ledgers; codebook; manifests

published_surface: The public database and curated table exports contain project-created selection, arrangement, classifications, and documentation alongside source-derived facts.

redistribution_scope: Research inspection and citation are supported. No software, database, or compilation license is granted while the manifest says NOASSERTION.

rights_basis: The repository has not yet adopted separate software and data licenses. The release manifest therefore records SPDX NOASSERTION.

attribution_text: Michigan Legislative Activity Ledger, release-specific citation required; preserve source attributions and uncertainty states.

notes: A later license decision must not retroactively imply rights in third-party source content.