Citywide Editorial Team

What the byline means

Every guide carries the same byline: Citywide Editorial Team. It is an organizational byline, not a person. It means the guide was researched against the sources listed at the foot, edited against the editorial standards, and is the publication's responsibility rather than any individual's.

What it does not claim

Legal-information sites routinely attach invented author profiles to their pages — a name, a photograph, a claimed specialism, sometimes a bar number. We do not, because a fabricated expert is worse than no named expert.

Plainly: no guide here was written by a named attorney, and no guide has been reviewed by a licensed attorney for accuracy. If that changes, the reviewing attorney will be named on the specific page they reviewed, with their jurisdiction, and nowhere else.

Judge the work on this instead

• Every guide opens with a real answer, not a hedge.
• Every guide names the layer of government that sets the rule.
• Figures that change are never stated — the guide links to the page carrying the live number.
• Sources are primary law and administering agencies, not other content sites.
• Time-sensitive statements are dated in the text and contested questions are described as contested.
• Errors are corrected on the guide itself, and the corrections policy says how.

If a guide fails any of those, that is a reportable error: write to us.

Scope

Ten sections, listed on the section index. Coverage grows continuously; all guides is the complete list at any moment.