We start with the office that decides.
Florida Porch favors official state, county, city, school, court, emergency, park, agency, and federal sources. If a private source is useful, it should not replace the official source for the answer.
Helpful is good. Careful is better.
Florida Porch is built to make Florida rules easier to start with, not to replace the office, contract, policy, professional, emergency source, or official record for the next step.
We keep estimates in their lane.
A calculator can help you see the shape of a cost, deadline, or checklist. It is not your tax bill, insurance quote, closing disclosure, permit approval, school decision, medical answer, or emergency instruction.
We leave room for local facts.
Florida rules often change by county, city, district, property, contract, weather event, park manager, or agency notice. The page should tell you where to check before you rely on the answer.
We would rather be careful than sound clever.
When a rule has exceptions or fast-moving updates, the safer answer is to say that clearly and point back to the official source.
How we review
The page should earn your trust quietly.
- Check the page against official Florida, local, federal, or deciding-office sources.
- Look for words that sound too final, such as guaranteed, complete, always, or never.
- Check what could hurt a reader if the page is stale, too broad, or missing a local exception.
- Keep the last-checked date and source list visible on serious guide pages.
- Use the feedback form to route corrections, broken links, and source disputes back into review.
Before you rely
Use the official source for the final step.
- For legal, tax, insurance, money, real estate, medical, school, permit, license, benefit, and emergency decisions, check the official source before you act.
- For local decisions, check the county, city, district, school, park, association, contract, insurer, lender, professional, or office that controls your exact situation.
- During active storms, fires, floods, beach hazards, health alerts, or other urgent events, use current emergency and weather sources first.
Official checks
References for this policy
Last checked July 5, 2026. These sources help shape how Florida Porch thinks about accuracy, corrections, advertising claims, and clear disclosures.