Florida Porch

Source and accuracy

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, or emergency source that decides what happens next.

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 source that controls the answer.

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.

  1. Check the page against official Florida, local, federal, or deciding-office sources.
  2. Look for words that sound too final, such as guaranteed, complete, always, or never.
  3. Ask what could hurt a reader if the page is stale, too broad, or missing a local exception.
  4. Keep the last-checked date and source list visible on serious guide pages.
  5. Use the feedback form to route corrections, broken links, and source disputes back into review.

Before you rely

Use the deciding source for the final step.

Official checks

References for this policy

Last checked June 30, 2026. These sources help shape how Florida Porch thinks about accuracy, corrections, advertising claims, and clear disclosures.