How Automation, Names, Ages, Corrections, and Source Updates Work

The rules governing automated summaries, source-supplied identities, revisions, and corrections.

Editorial starter: review this page against current source behavior and the site’s approved policies before enabling search indexing.

Automated summaries are assembled from supported source fields. They do not infer cause, fault, a person’s role, identity, age, spelling, or injury outcome.

When the CAD source explicitly identifies a driver, victim, injured person, or deceased person, Florida Crash Watch policy permits the supplied full name and exact numeric age—including for a minor—on relevant public surfaces. Witnesses and next of kin are excluded. Phone numbers, license plates, unrelated residential addresses, protected identities, and raw remarks are not part of the public projection.

A later source revision is added to the record timeline. Substantive factual changes update the modified date without rewriting the original publication date. Correction and removal controls must update every identity-bearing surface; until the complete public correction workflow is available, the Corrections page explains the current limitation.

The identity policy and its relationship to Florida Statute §316.066 require owner and legal-policy review before indexing is enabled.

Last reviewed Aug 1, 2026. Material changes are dated and corrected in place.