governance_docs/README.md

# Federal FOIA Intelligence Search

A governance-first research tool for exploring U.S. government FOIA
reading rooms.

## Features
- Multi-agency FOIA link search
- Inline PDF preview (public PDFs only)
- Court-ready exhibit packets
- Table of Authorities generator
- FOIA exhaustion timeline
- Persistent public share pages
- Governance & ethics documentation

## Explicitly Disabled
- Background crawling
- Private data access
- Vector embeddings (FAISS Phase-4)
- Automated filing or scraping

## Intended Users
- Journalists
- Researchers
- Courts
- Clerks
- Academic institutions