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Audit: issues found and corrections made
Summary
Audit of the first draft article identified issues around attribution precision, missing statute citation, vote tally clarity, and role labeling; the article was revised to correct phrasing, explicitly note unknowns, and avoid inferred identifications.
What was checked: spelling, clarity, chronology, framing, misinformation, misidentification, out_of_context, Quantitative precision, Process clarity, Context clarity, Agency clarity, Question emphasis, omission, bias, duplicate.
Findings (issues requiring revision):
1) misidentification: Several individual names (for example, "Cammie," "Jill," "Denise") appear in the transcript but are not self-identified on specific speaker turns; the draft must not attribute their spoken remarks to named individuals unless the transcript shows that name spoken by that speaker. Severity: medium.
2) Quantitative precision: The draft originally implied an exact vote tally; the transcript records a voice vote and does not list individual roll-call tallies. The revised article now states that no roll-call tally was recorded in the transcript. Severity: medium.
3) Agency clarity / legal citation missing: The draft referenced "state statute" without citation. The article now reports that board members asked for the statute citation and that it was "not specified" in the meeting record. Severity: medium.
4) Out_of_context / framing: The initial draft risked implying the district had intentionally changed rules; the revision clarifies the posted guidelines stemmed from an inadvertent wrong copy sent by legal. Severity: medium.
5) Attribution locking: All quotes and attributions were checked to ensure they map to numbered speaker labels and functional-role labels; the revision uses role-label attributions (Chair (S2), Committee member (S3), etc.) and avoids assigning full personal names to specific speaker labels unless clearly present in the transcript. Severity: high.
No issues found: spelling of entities cited as given in transcript (MSBA, Missouri Ethics); chronology preserved; article maintains neutral tone and separates discussion from formal action.
Resolution: The article was revised to (a) attribute statements to functional speaker labels matching the transcript voice labels, (b) explicitly state where the transcript did not provide statute citation or vote tallies, and (c) avoid inferred identifications.
