Editorial Policy

This page explains how content on BiteRightsLaw.com actually gets made, who's responsible for it, and how we handle mistakes — so you don't have to guess or just take our word for it.

Who's Behind This Content

BiteRightsLaw.com is published and edited by Ahsan Ayub (see the full about page). To be direct about it: Ahsan is not a licensed attorney, and neither is anyone else on this site's editorial team. That's exactly why the sourcing standard below exists — every legal claim on this site has to trace back to an actual statute, a .gov source, or a state bar resource, not to anyone's personal legal opinion. Nothing here substitutes for advice from a licensed attorney in your state; see our full legal disclaimer.

How AI Is Used, Specifically

Articles start as AI-assisted drafts: research assembled with AI tools, an initial pass at plain-English explanation, structured around the legal questions a real reader in that state would actually have. That draft is not the finished page. A human — currently Ahsan — reviews every draft, checks every legal claim against a primary source (see below), rewrites anything that reads generic or hedges when it shouldn't, and adds state-specific detail an AI drafting pass wouldn't know to look for on its own (a local animal control department's name and current bite-reporting process, for example, or a state-specific wrinkle in how provocation gets interpreted).

We disclose this plainly rather than hide it because Google's own guidance treats AI-assisted content as legitimate as long as its use is disclosed and a human does real editorial work on top of it — the problem Google's spam policies target is using automation to mass-produce unreviewed pages purely to manipulate rankings, not the use of AI as a drafting tool. Every page on this site is written to answer a specific reader's question first; if a page would only exist to catch a keyword, it doesn't get published.

Where Our Information Comes From

Legal claims on this site — statute text, liability classifications, statutes of limitations, comparative-negligence rules — are checked against a primary source before publishing, not copied from another blog or directory site. In order of preference, that means:

• The state's official statute text (e.g. the state legislature's revisor-of-statutes site) or a codified-law reference like Justia or Cornell Law's Legal Information Institute
• A .gov source — a state or county agency page, a court's public filings, or an official animal control department
• A state bar association resource or a published appellate decision, where relevant
• Multiple independent personal-injury law sources cross-checked against each other, used only to confirm interpretation of a statute already sourced above — never as the original source of a legal fact

Where a page cites a specific statute — California Civil Code § 3342, Missouri's RSMo § 273.036, or any other — that citation is checked against the statute's current text at the time of writing. Where a page classifies a state's liability regime as strict liability, one-bite rule, or a mixed statute, that classification is cross-checked against more than one legal reference before publishing, and is flagged for review rather than silently guessed at if sources disagree.

Review Cycle

State and metro law pages are reviewed at least once a year, and sooner whenever a relevant statute changes or a local detail we cited goes stale — animal control contracts change, departments get renamed, and city ordinances get amended more often than most readers expect. That's not hypothetical: Kansas City, Missouri moved animal control enforcement from a nonprofit contractor back to a city department in mid-2025, and our Kansas City page was updated to reflect the change rather than left pointing readers to an office that no longer handles bite reports. The "last reviewed" date at the bottom of every article reflects the most recent check against sources — not necessarily the original publish date.

Editorial Independence From Advertising

This site is supported by display advertising — see our full advertising disclosure. No advertiser can pay to change what a law, settlement, or hub page says about strict liability, statutes of limitations, or anything else legal. Editorial content and advertising are handled separately — ad placement and selection are fully controlled by Google AdSense, not by us individually.

Corrections

If you find an error — especially in a legal citation, a statute of limitations, or a local detail like an animal control department's name — please contact us. We respond within 2 business days. Confirmed errors are corrected promptly, and the "last reviewed" date on that page is updated whenever a substantive change is made — we don't quietly edit a page without updating that date.