Code of Conduct
NotYetSolved.com is a volunteer public-research and case-awareness platform. All users are volunteers. These rules are non-negotiable. Violations result in immediate account termination.
Users are not employees, contractors, or representatives of NotYetSolved, Statecraft Examiners, law enforcement, any victim's family, or any attorney.
Volunteer Researchers CAN
- Conduct open-source research using publicly available information
- Review public records, court documents, and news archives
- Organize public-source files, timelines, and case documentation
- Submit FOIA requests to government agencies
- Submit public information and research notes
- Provide information to law enforcement through proper channels
Volunteer Researchers CANNOT
- Accept payment, gifts, rewards, tips, reimbursement, or anything of value for research activity
- Offer paid research or case-work services through NotYetSolved
- Solicit compensation from families, advocates, attorneys, agencies, or other users
- Contact witnesses, suspects, victims' families, law enforcement, employers, schools, agencies, or private individuals about a case without written authorization
- Represent themselves as private researchers, law enforcement, representatives of NotYetSolved, or representatives of a family
- Conduct surveillance, pretexting, trespassing, impersonation, harassment, doxing, or unauthorized database searches
- Publish accusations against private individuals
- Interfere with active law-enforcement cases, court cases, or law-enforcement activity
- Use restricted, stolen, hacked, confidential, or unlawfully obtained information
- Share restricted case material outside the platform
Remember: You are a volunteer researcher. Your role is to organize public information, document findings, and submit credible information to law enforcement through proper channels. The cases on this platform involve real people and real families. Conduct yourself accordingly.
NotYetSolved is a volunteer public-research and case-awareness platform. It does not provide private investigation services, legal services, law-enforcement services, emergency services, or paid case work. Users may organize public information, build timelines, review public records, preserve source links, and discuss unresolved public-interest cases. Users may not accept payment or anything of value for research activity connected to NotYetSolved.