TRUST_SAFETY.md

Trust & Safety Addendum (Hugging Face)

Overview

This application provides federated access to public U.S. Government FOIA Electronic Reading Rooms.

Explicitly Prohibited Actions (Not Performed)

• ❌ Web scraping
• ❌ Crawling
• ❌ Mirroring documents
• ❌ Circumventing access controls
• ❌ Bypassing robots.txt
• ❌ Redistributing content

AI Safeguards

• AI is explicit opt-in
• Document analysis is user-initiated
• PDF text extraction occurs only upon request
• AI outputs contain:
  • Disclosure notice
  • Integrity hash
  • Citation

Data Handling

• No document storage
• No user tracking
• No analytics
• Stateless execution

Compliance Conclusion

This application complies with Hugging Face platform policies and applicable U.S. law.