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+# Judicial Bench Memorandum
+Federal FOIA Intelligence Search Tool
+
+## What This Tool Does
+• Provides links to public FOIA reading rooms
+• Assists research and transparency
+• Preserves agency custody of records
+
+## What This Tool Does NOT Do
+• Does not authenticate evidence
+• Does not scrape documents
+• Does not certify accuracy
+• Does not interact with CM/ECF
+
+## AI Use
+• Disabled unless user opts in
+• Only assists summarization
+• Output is hashed and labeled
+• Never treated as factual assertion
+
+## Use in Chambers
+Appropriate for:
+• Background research
+• Contextual orientation
+• Identifying public sources
+
+Not appropriate for:
+• Fact-finding
+• Evidentiary rulings
+• Judicial notice without verification
+
+This memo is informational only.