Community Stories
Published reports as readable stories — entity-focused, redacted, hashtag-powered.
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Lex — Database-First Legal Guide
Not legal advice • Always consult an attorney
Database-first and privacy-aware: Lex searches the site's legal and resource databases even when AI is unavailable. Optional AI can improve explanation, translation, and drafting, but it is never required. Lex is not a lawyer; verify every case, law, deadline, service, and professional. Private notes, evidence contents, contacts, and document text are included only when you deliberately provide or analyze them.
Intake
Guidance only — not legal representation. Not for emergencies.
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Intake vs Hall of Shame: Use Intake when you want private email review of your matter (contact info required). Use Hall of Shame for anonymous, public entity accountability reports — no reporter identity stored.
Private intake request
Request guidance for a legal matter
Share what is happening, explain deadlines, and attach documents. Submitted documents are converted into secure, email-viewable image attachments when conversion tools are available.
🛡️ Session-only by default
📎 Attachment rendering
⚖️ Guidance only
Resources
Official forms, glossary, legal aid directory, constitutional text, escalation contacts, and complaint guides — lookup only. Document drafting lives in Case Workspace → Document Generator.
Understands what you mean as you type — county contacts, court forms, legal terms, constitution text, complaint guides, and escalation numbers.
Need to draft a letter or court document?
Document Generator moved to Case Workspace — demand letters, guided drafts, timelines, court scripts, and filing packets with PDF/Word export.
Legacy drafting tools (demand letter, guided drafts, timeline…)
Copy or download drafts — nothing is saved in this browser tab.
About this project
Built by Urban Jellyfish
This legal aide website is brought to you by Urban Jellyfish LLC and powered by the Urban Jellyfish Engine. It was created to help people better understand legal processes, organize information, locate useful resources, and move through confusing systems with clearer next steps.
CompanyUrban Jellyfish LLC
Powered byUrban Jellyfish Engine
Project creditJairtzinio R. Ortiz Escobedo
Support or questionsJairtzinio@live.com
Rights© Urban Jellyfish LLC. All rights reserved.
👥 Who this is for
California residents and families navigating courts, agencies, jails, housing, family law, civil rights, and related systems — especially when you need plain-language orientation, county contacts, and tools to organize your next steps without hiring a lawyer first.
Good fit: Finding forms, understanding pathways, tracking deadlines locally, drafting non-attorney paperwork, reporting entity conduct anonymously, and asking Lex general questions about how to use the site.
What it is not: A law firm, emergency hotline, or substitute for a licensed attorney. It does not file papers for you, guarantee outcomes, or store private case work after your session ends. Only a backup you explicitly download with your passphrase leaves the temporary session.
🛡️ Privacy and session disclaimer
No permanent storage by design: This website is intended to avoid keeping or storing personal information after a session ends. Information entered into the site should be treated as session-only and cleared when the session is flushed.
- Download generated documents immediately. Documents created by the website are not kept, stored, or recoverable after the session is cleared or flushed.
- Use caution with sensitive details. Even though session data is designed to be cleared, avoid entering Social Security numbers, financial account numbers, full medical details, private addresses, names of minors, or anything unnecessary.
- Public or shared device warning. Close the browser tab, clear downloads when appropriate, and make sure saved PDFs or documents are not left behind on a shared computer.
- Session flush means final. Once the session is reset, flushed, expired, or cleared, the website should not be expected to restore prior answers, drafts, documents, chat text, or uploads.
🔐 Privacy & data flows
This site is built for public-session use: private case work should not survive after you end the session. Below is a plain-language summary of what stays in your browser and what may leave it.
No first-party cookies. This app does not set tracking or session cookies. Temporary browser storage (sessionStorage) holds private work only while your session is active.
No visitor IP logging in the app. The application does not write access logs, chat logs, or intake files to disk. Rate limits use an anonymous session identifier — not your IP address.
What session flush clears
End Session, inactivity timeout, or a successful Secure Intake send triggers a flush. These browser-held items are removed:
- Navigator wizard — answers, pathway results, and in-progress steps.
- Case Workspace — saved cases, notes, timelines, and document drafts (default public-session mode).
- AI Assistant chat — conversation history for the current session.
- Evidence files — IndexedDB blobs and in-memory attachments tied to the workspace.
- Forum — local post drafts (
cln-forum-posts). - Hall of Shame / Civic Data Engine — entity reports (
civic-db), composer drafts (civic-composer-draft); legacy story key migrated on load. - Forum session keys — alias choices and vote state for the current visit.
What may persist after flush (not private case content)
- Display preferences — text size, contrast, and dark/light theme.
- “Remember on this device” — only if you explicitly turn this on; otherwise cases stay session-only.
Reference data on the site
| What | Stored? | Contains PII? |
|---|---|---|
| Anonymous visit totals | Yes — aggregate counts only | No — no individual tracking |
| Legal resource library | Yes — public reference data | No — forms, agencies, statutes |
| Chat or workspace content | No | — |
| Intake file copies on disk | No — removed after processing | — |
Visit totals are kept as anonymous aggregate counts so the site can understand overall traffic without tracking individuals.
When data intentionally leaves your browser
Secure Intake form. If you submit the five-step intake, contact details and matter summary are emailed for review. The form requires acknowledgment and triggers a full session flush after a successful send.
Lex & Legal Forge AI. When you use AI features, the text you send is processed to generate a reply or draft. This site does not store those messages after your session ends.
CDN scripts & hosting. External scripts (fonts, icons) and your web host may log IP addresses at the network layer. That is outside this application's control.
Important: You can still type personal details into the Navigator, workspace, chat, forum, or Hall of Shame while a session is open. Flush removes them from this browser; it does not undo email already sent through Intake or text already processed by an AI feature.
⚖️ Legal and safety disclaimers
Not legal advice: This website provides legal information, organization tools, and resource guidance only. It is not a law firm and does not create an attorney-client relationship.
Verify before relying: Court rules, forms, filing instructions, service rules, and deadlines can change. Always confirm information with the court, agency, legal aid office, or a licensed attorney.
Use careful judgment: Be careful with the information you provide. While nothing is intended to be kept after your session ends, for your safety it is recommended that you proceed with caution.
🪼 Project status, bugs, and feature requests
Solo project notice: This website is currently a solo project created and maintained by Jairtzinio R. Ortiz Escobedo. Resources, tools, and features will continue to be added and improved over time.
Report bugs or request features: If something is broken, confusing, missing, or you have an idea that would make the site more useful, please email Jairtzinio@live.com.
Donations and support matter: This project takes time, research, testing, and upkeep. Donations and community support are greatly appreciated and help keep the tools growing.
Anonymous Public Forum
Share legal-system experiences safely.
Forum ≠ Hall of Shame. The Forum is for anonymous discussion and community notes. Hall of Shame is for formal entity accountability reports (facilities, agencies, courts) with structured hashtags.
No logins. Anonymous aliases only. No uploads. Public case numbers, attorney details, law firm information, and official contacts are allowed only when clearly marked with red-tape hashtags.
No accounts
Anonymous aliases only
No uploads
Required hashtags
Community reports
Public discussions0
Counties represented0
Cities represented0
Civic Data Engine
Counties Behaving Badly
County accountability workbooks — select a county to browse its litigation matrix. View-only; not legal advice.
County accountability
Counties Behaving Badly
Browse litigation matrices and oversight research by county — spreadsheet-style workbooks, view-only; not legal advice.
Post responsibly. Entity conduct only — never post threats, private personal information, or knowingly false claims. Case numbers and reporter identity are stripped at intake.
Civic Data Engine
This system collects information about what is being reported — counties, jails, courts, agencies, and public officials — not about the person reporting. User information, court case numbers, and personal case details are never stored. Draft entity reports remain temporary for this session unless deliberately published as an anonymous forum post.
Total: 0
Pending: 0
Hall of Shame: 0
Published: 0
Hashtags: 0
Pending review
Published story
Hall of Shame
Staff flags severe entity failures for the public Hall of Shame list.
Quick Actions
Use the composer for new reports, or export engine data below.
Engine Log JSON
Full internal dataset — counties, facilities, officials (roles), raw descriptions, hashtags. For statistical analysis.
Public Redacted JSON
Hall of Shame safe export — no official names, no user info, no case numbers.
Hashtag Stats CSV
Aggregated counts by hashtag, county, entity type, and issue category.
Civic Data Engine — Statistics
Aggregated entity-level data for informational and statistical purposes. No user data included.
By County
By Entity Type
By Issue
Top Facilities
Top Hashtags
Gemini 2.5 Flash — AI Assist
AI assist uses the website's secure, server-configured Gemini 2.5 Flash connection. Visitors never enter or manage an API key.
Review Log
Entity-level reports awaiting or past review. Moderator view — not shown on the public Hall of Shame feed.