{
  "schema": "clearly.photography-editorial-standard/1.0",
  "title": "People, places, and the stories between them",
  "edition_date": "2026-10-19",
  "reviewed_at": "2026-10-19T21:48:00-07:00",
  "timezone": "America/Los_Angeles",
  "public_standard_path": "/photography/",
  "mission": "Help people understand the world, its differences, and its connections while respecting the dignity and agency of people represented.",
  "scope": {
    "review_type": "Bounded editorial-context and source-metadata review",
    "includes": [
      "Three identified photographs used in the main Clearly project",
      "Copyright license recorded on each original source page",
      "Verified descriptive context, dates, and available subject-permission evidence",
      "Editorial decisions for specific unsuitable placements"
    ],
    "does_not_establish": [
      "Review or clearance of every photograph in the main project",
      "Review of every independently hosted Clearly project",
      "Permission from people depicted where no evidence is recorded",
      "Endorsement by people, photographers, institutions, or cited standards organizations",
      "A legal determination about a particular image or use",
      "Completed removal of every retired placement"
    ],
    "implementation_status": "Editorial decisions recorded; integration and route verification are tracked separately."
  },
  "principles": [
    {
      "id": "agency",
      "rule": "Represent people as participants in their own lives, with varied activities and perspectives; avoid generic symbols of need, confusion, failure, or virtue."
    },
    {
      "id": "context",
      "rule": "Place verified location and date near the photograph. Match local questions to local evidence. Identify archive photographs as archive material."
    },
    {
      "id": "supported-meaning",
      "rule": "Do not infer a pictured person's opinion, financial situation, diagnosis, service need, or experience from a general photograph. Illustrative questions are not their testimony."
    },
    {
      "id": "separate-rights",
      "rule": "Record copyright license separately from subject privacy, permission, and endorsement. Unknown evidence remains unknown."
    },
    {
      "id": "children",
      "rule": "Give additional consideration to children's interests, privacy, context, and available child and guardian permission; replace generic brand use when these remain unresolved."
    },
    {
      "id": "integrity",
      "rule": "Preserve photographic meaning through desktop and mobile crops. Credit creator and source, link the actual license, disclose alterations, and identify generated imagery as illustration."
    },
    {
      "id": "review",
      "rule": "Record why the image belongs in the specific story, what is verified, what is uncertain, and what implementation remains to be checked."
    }
  ],
  "required_review_fields": [
    "asset_path",
    "depiction",
    "location",
    "date_evidence",
    "intended_editorial_purpose",
    "creator",
    "source_url",
    "copyright_license",
    "modifications",
    "subject_permission",
    "unsupported_implications",
    "editorial_decision",
    "implementation_verification"
  ],
  "standards_sources": [
    {
      "organization": "National Press Photographers Association",
      "title": "Visual integrity and code of ethics",
      "url": "https://bop.secure-platform.com/a/page/guidelines/visual",
      "used_for": [
        "Context",
        "Dignity",
        "Avoiding stereotypes",
        "Photographic integrity"
      ]
    },
    {
      "organization": "UNICEF",
      "title": "Ethical reporting guidelines",
      "url": "https://www.unicef.org/media/reporting-guidelines",
      "used_for": [
        "Children's interests",
        "Privacy",
        "Participation and permission",
        "Accurate representation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "organization": "Wikimedia Commons",
      "title": "Photographs of identifiable people",
      "url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Photographs_of_identifiable_people",
      "used_for": [
        "Copyright distinguished from subject rights",
        "Context",
        "Consent evidence"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "reviews": [
    {
      "id": "mozambique-community-meeting",
      "asset_path": "assets/world/community-meeting.jpg",
      "depiction": "People seated at a community meeting; source broadly describes people at work.",
      "location": {
        "value": "Mozambique",
        "evidence_status": "Supported by original source description",
        "more_specific_place": null
      },
      "date_evidence": {
        "source_summary": "2016-04-16",
        "display_date": "April 16, 2016",
        "status": "Source summary and embedded timestamp agree; source supplied date, not independently corroborated."
      },
      "creator": "Tom Cat King",
      "source_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Community_meeting.jpg",
      "copyright_license": {
        "name": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
        "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/",
        "evidence_status": "Listed on original source page"
      },
      "modifications": {
        "known_display_treatment": "CSS display crop in existing placements",
        "complete_file_transformation_audit": "Not performed in this bounded review"
      },
      "subject_permission": {
        "status": "Not established",
        "evidence": "No subject permission or Clearly endorsement evidence identified in the source record reviewed.",
        "inference_limit": "A listed copyright license does not establish subject consent or endorsement."
      },
      "intended_editorial_purpose": "A visibly identified global scene of people gathering, with only the meaning supported by the documented photograph.",
      "unsupported_implications": [
        "Riverside City Hall",
        "A particular civic grievance",
        "A verified meeting agenda",
        "The participants' opinions",
        "Endorsement of Clearly"
      ],
      "editorial_decision": "Retire use beneath the Riverside City Hall question. Any retained global use requires a visible Mozambique caption and contextual review.",
      "uses_to_retire": [
        "City Hall problem card",
        "Generic municipal-worker or public-service failure illustration"
      ],
      "implementation_verification": {
        "status": "Implemented in main-site release candidate",
        "reviewed_at": "2026-10-19",
        "note": "City Hall question and resident/worker role illustrations replaced with actual Riverside City Hall. Retained Home, World and Research scenes identify Mozambique; no agenda or participant opinion is attributed. Active Why and World reviewed in browser.",
        "limit": "Separate live projects and all historic archives are not certified by this implementation check."
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "southern-arkansas-students",
      "asset_path": "assets/world/students-campus.jpg",
      "related_asset_paths": [
        "assets/world/students-campus-hero-1600.jpg",
        "assets/world/students-campus-hero-640.jpg"
      ],
      "depiction": "Southern Arkansas University students walking in front of the science building in spring.",
      "location": {
        "value": "Southern Arkansas University campus",
        "evidence_status": "Supported by original source description"
      },
      "date_evidence": {
        "source_summary": "2012-04-25",
        "display_date": "April 25, 2012",
        "status": "Source summary and embedded timestamp agree; source supplied date, not independently corroborated."
      },
      "creator": "Cdbrice00 at English Wikipedia",
      "source_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Southern_Arkansas_students_walking_on_campus.jpg",
      "copyright_license": {
        "name": "CC BY-SA 3.0",
        "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/",
        "evidence_status": "One of the original source's offered licenses; selected license recorded by Clearly"
      },
      "modifications": {
        "known_display_treatment": "CSS display crops; hero derivatives are cropped or resized, as documented in OUTER_CHAPTER_IMAGE_PROVENANCE.json.",
        "complete_file_transformation_audit": "Not performed in this bounded review"
      },
      "subject_permission": {
        "status": "Not established",
        "evidence": "No subject permission or Clearly endorsement evidence identified in the source record reviewed.",
        "inference_limit": "A public campus photograph does not establish agreement with a nearby product message."
      },
      "intended_editorial_purpose": "A correctly named archive campus scene for a general education story, without attributing unverified experiences to students.",
      "unsupported_implications": [
        "Victor Valley College",
        "Riverside City College",
        "Financial aid receipt",
        "Financial hardship",
        "Confusion about aid",
        "Endorsement of Clearly"
      ],
      "editorial_decision": "Retire VVC-specific and financial-aid-confusion pairings. Identify the actual campus and source date in any retained broader education use.",
      "uses_to_retire": [
        "VVC-specific service illustration",
        "Aid-confusion question card",
        "Uncaptioned generic student experience illustration"
      ],
      "implementation_verification": {
        "status": "Implemented in main-site release candidate",
        "reviewed_at": "2026-10-19",
        "note": "Financial-aid question now uses a named library interior; college generator and Explore entrances use actual Riverside City College. Retained World and Systems learning scenes identify Southern Arkansas University. Active Why and World reviewed in browser.",
        "limit": "Separate live projects and all historic archives are not certified by this implementation check."
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "mother-and-child",
      "asset_path": "assets/world/mother-child.jpg",
      "depiction": "An adult and child smiling; original file title is Mother and child smiling.",
      "location": {
        "value": null,
        "evidence_status": "Not supplied by the source record reviewed"
      },
      "date_evidence": {
        "source_summary": "2020-06-13",
        "embedded_original_timestamp": "2019-12-28 16:00",
        "display_date": null,
        "status": "Conflicting metadata; exact capture date is not established by this review."
      },
      "creator": "20masum",
      "source_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mother_and_child_smiling.jpg",
      "copyright_license": {
        "name": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
        "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/",
        "evidence_status": "Listed on original source page"
      },
      "modifications": {
        "known_display_treatment": "CSS display crop in existing placements",
        "complete_file_transformation_audit": "Not performed in this bounded review"
      },
      "subject_permission": {
        "status": "Not established",
        "guardian_permission_status": "Not established",
        "evidence": "No subject or guardian permission for Clearly's use identified in the source record reviewed.",
        "inference_limit": "Neither the copyright license nor the depicted smile establishes permission for a generic brand message."
      },
      "intended_editorial_purpose": null,
      "unsupported_implications": [
        "The family's location",
        "Exact capture date",
        "Specific personal needs or experiences",
        "Connection with Clearly",
        "Guardian approval for this use"
      ],
      "editorial_decision": "Retire from generic human, family, and brand placements pending adequate contextual and permission review.",
      "uses_to_retire": [
        "Generic human-beginning hero",
        "Brand or founder-purpose illustration",
        "Generic family or child service-need illustration"
      ],
      "implementation_verification": {
        "status": "Implemented in main-site release candidate",
        "reviewed_at": "2026-10-19",
        "note": "No mother-child image references remain in active HTML/module source. Original asset and provenance are preserved. This records placement retirement, not a legal finding.",
        "limit": "Separate live projects and all historic archives are not certified by this implementation check."
      }
    }
  ],
  "public_contact": {
    "status": "Published project email contacts",
    "evidence": "Project email links were published in the owner-requested October 27, 2026 rollout. Current main contact-overlay files match that rollout verification receipt. Mailbox delivery was not tested.",
    "contact_review_date": "2026-10-28",
    "research_and_photo_context": "research@clearlyhereto.help",
    "technical_support": "support@clearlyhereto.help",
    "founder_statement_path": "/#/founder",
    "submission_capability": "This standard has no report form, upload, or submission backend."
  }
}