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+# CIVICVS Artifact Entry
+
+## Artifact ID
+
+CAE-OG-2025-HOA-BROKEN-GOVERNANCE
+
+---
+
+## Title
+
+Homeowners Associations (HOAs): Pseudo-Governance Without Civic Legitimacy
+
+---
+
+## Category
+
+**Organizational Guise (OG)** — Pseudo-Governments
+
+---
+
+## Description
+
+Homeowners Associations (HOAs) present themselves as **community governance entities** intended to maintain property values, manage shared spaces, and enhance neighborhood quality of life.
+
+In practice, HOAs often operate as **quasi-governments**:
+
+* Run by untrained, unelected, or underqualified individuals.
+* Exercising life-changing powers over residents, including liens, fines, and foreclosures.
+* Enforcing restrictive covenants (CC\&Rs) that shape personal property rights, often without due process or meaningful recourse.
+
+This creates a civic misalignment: **governance powers without civic protocols** (elections, transparency, appeals, constitutional safeguards).
+
+---
+
+## Source of Truth
+
+* **Bylaws & Covenants (CC\&Rs):** Immutable contracts recorded in property deeds.
+* **Board Records:** Meeting minutes, financial statements.
+* **Legal Proceedings:** Court filings involving HOA disputes, foreclosures, resident appeals.
+* **Tax & Funding Records:** Annual budgets, mandatory dues, fines.
+
+---
+
+## Preservation
+
+* Property filings and CC\&Rs are permanent legal artifacts.
+* Board minutes and financials should be archived in IPFS or equivalent immutable store.
+* Case law involving HOAs is preserved in public judicial records.
+
+---
+
+## Analyst Notes
+
+* **Civic Significance:** HOAs embody the risk of *private governance with public consequence*.
+* **Civic Risk:** Residents are subject to coercive power without institutional safeguards of civic governance.
+* **Civic Value:** Documenting HOAs as pseudo-governments exposes the fragility of civic legitimacy when authority is exercised without training, ethics, or accountability.
+
+---
+
+## Civic Consequence
+
+HOAs are a canonical example of **Organizational Guise (OG)**:
+
+* **Claimed Purpose:** Community governance and property value protection.
+* **Actual Output:** Arbitrary and sometimes abusive exercises of power over residents.
+* **Misalignment:** Life-changing authority wielded by unqualified actors without civic legitimacy.
+
+This exemplar establishes the **Pseudo-Government subtype** within OG. It demonstrates that not all organizational guises are NGOs or nonprofits; some are *private micro-governments* whose civic impact rivals or exceeds that of official bodies.
+
+---
+
+✅ **Status:** Artifact Entry filed.
+**Subtype Established:** OG-Pseudo-Governments.
+

docs/CIVICVS Artifact Entry CAE-OG-2025-NPR-PUBLIC-BROADCASTING.md

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+# CIVICVS Artifact Entry
+
+## Artifact ID
+
+CAE-OG-2025-NPR-PUBLIC-BROADCASTING
+
+---
+
+## Title
+
+National Public Radio (NPR): State-Subsidized Media as Public Service Guise
+
+---
+
+## Category
+
+**Organizational Guise (OG)** — State-Subsidized Guise
+
+---
+
+## Description
+
+National Public Radio (NPR) presents itself as a **public service broadcaster**, funded in part by U.S. taxpayers and private donations, with the mission of providing **independent, balanced journalism in the public interest**.
+
+In practice, NPR functions as a **state-subsidized information broker** that frequently:
+
+* Aligns coverage with partisan or elite narratives.
+* Uses public funding to maintain an image of neutrality while functioning as an advocacy outlet.
+* Fails to provide citizens with transparent mechanisms of accountability despite compulsory support via tax allocation.
+
+This creates a civic misalignment: **taxpayer-funded neutrality claimed, partisan advocacy delivered**.
+
+---
+
+## Source of Truth
+
+* **Funding Records:** Congressional appropriations, IRS filings, NPR Foundation reports.
+* **Governance Documents:** Board membership, public mission statements.
+* **Editorial Records:** Publicly accessible guidelines, archived programming.
+* **Audits & Investigations:** Independent evaluations, public controversies.
+
+---
+
+## Preservation
+
+* Federal funding allocations and IRS filings are immutable public records.
+* Program archives and editorial guidelines should be preserved via IPFS, timestamping, and institutional repositories.
+* Media controversies and investigative reports must be recorded as comparative context.
+
+---
+
+## Analyst Notes
+
+* **Civic Significance:** NPR demonstrates how publicly funded organizations can cloak themselves in **civic neutrality** while functioning as partisan actors.
+* **Civic Risk:** Citizens are compelled to fund institutions that may not uphold civic ethics of balance, disclosure, and independence.
+* **Civic Value:** Documenting NPR as a **state-subsidized guise** protects the civic record from the moral rhetoric of “public service” when actual outputs diverge.
+
+---
+
+## Civic Consequence
+
+NPR is a canonical example of **Organizational Guise (OG)** in the **State-Subsidized subtype**:
+
+* **Claimed Purpose:** Neutral, independent public broadcasting.
+* **Actual Output:** Advocacy journalism aligned with partisan or elite narratives.
+* **Misalignment:** Taxpayer funding legitimizes partiality, undermining public trust in journalism.
+
+This exemplar expands OG beyond NGOs and pseudo-governments to include **publicly funded institutions** whose civic posture masks agenda-driven behavior.
+
+---
+
+✅ **Status:** Artifact Entry filed.
+**Subtype Established:** OG-State-Subsidized Guise.
+

docs/CIVICVS Artifact Entry CFD-AI-2024-HARVARD-GAY-RESIGNATION.md

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+# CIVICVS Foundation Document
+
+## Document ID
+
+CFD-AI-2024-HARVARD-GAY-RESIGNATION
+
+---
+
+## Title
+
+Academic Integrity Collapse: Claudine Gay’s Resignation from Harvard University
+
+---
+
+## Category
+
+**Foundation Exemplar** — Academic Integrity as Civic Artifact
+
+---
+
+## Purpose
+
+To establish *academic integrity* as a category of civic artifacts within CIVICVS.
+Academic integrity failures are not merely professional lapses; they constitute civic breaches because knowledge production and transmission are **civic protocols** that safeguard the public good.
+
+This document formalizes how CIVICVS records and analyzes such cases: through preservation of institutional actions, constructed evidence (plagiarism exhibits), and the civic consequences of compromised integrity.
+
+---
+
+## Case Description
+
+Claudine Gay, the 30th President of Harvard University, resigned in January 2024 following mounting plagiarism allegations in her academic work.
+
+The controversy centered on multiple publications alleged to contain unattributed or insufficiently cited material. The allegations, widely publicized and politically amplified, culminated in Harvard’s formal acceptance of her resignation.
+
+* **Tier-1 (Immutable by Origin):** Harvard’s governance communications and resignation announcement.
+* **Tier-2 (Constructed Immutable Evidence):** Side-by-side comparisons of published texts demonstrating overlap with prior works.
+
+---
+
+## Known Immutable Processes & Records
+
+* **Institutional Governance:** Appointment, resignation, and board communications are recorded in official Harvard governance proceedings.
+* **Academic Publication:** Articles, dissertations, and books are permanently preserved in institutional repositories and journals.
+* **Plagiarism Analysis:** Comparative exhibits can be reproduced from source texts, establishing constructed immutability.
+* **Media and Public Record:** Contemporaneous reporting preserved in archives, though secondary.
+
+---
+
+## Analyst Notes
+
+* **Civic Significance:**
+
+  * Academic integrity is a civic protocol: without attribution and reproducibility, society loses trust in its knowledge infrastructure.
+  * The collapse of integrity at the highest academic office demonstrates how individual misconduct can escalate into institutional crisis.
+* **Civic Risk:**
+
+  * When institutions defend or obscure integrity failures, civic damage expands beyond academia, eroding public confidence in knowledge systems.
+* **Civic Value:**
+
+  * Preserving such cases ensures that academic integrity breaches are treated not as scandals but as civic artifacts — reproducible, auditable, and precedent-setting.
+
+---
+
+## Civic Consequence
+
+The resignation of Harvard’s president under plagiarism accusations establishes **Academic Integrity Collapse** as a category of civic artifact.
+
+* It shows how violations of academic ethics (citation, attribution) are civic breaches, not private failings.
+* It highlights the necessity of preserving comparative evidence (side-by-side text) as constructed immutable artifacts.
+* It provides a reference case for future CIVICVS analysts, ensuring academic integrity is systematically treated as a civic domain, comparable to conflicts of interest and contested identity claims.
+
+---
+
+✅ **Status:** Foundation Document filed.
+**Category Established:** Academic Integrity (AI) — all future cases of plagiarism, falsified data, or integrity violations in scholarship shall be recorded under this category.
+

docs/CIVICVS Artifact Entry CFD-COI-1990-WARREN-TRIBAL-CLAIM.md

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+# CIVICVS Foundation Document
+
+## Document ID
+
+CFD-CIR-1990-WARREN-TRIBAL-CLAIM
+
+---
+
+## Title
+
+Contested Ethnic Identity Claims: Elizabeth Warren and Tribal Affiliation Records
+
+---
+
+## Category
+
+**Foundation Exemplar** — Contested Immutable Record (CIR) as Civic Artifact
+
+---
+
+## Purpose
+
+To establish **Contested Immutable Records** as a civic artifact category. These occur when **immutable by origin records** (forms, applications, official listings) contain entries whose accuracy or legitimacy is challenged by **counter-artifacts** (statements, tests, cultural authority).
+
+This document formalizes how CIVICVS records contested artifacts: preserving both the official record and the counter-records without collapsing them into a single truth claim.
+
+---
+
+## Case Description
+
+Elizabeth Warren, U.S. Senator, was accused of identifying as “Native American” in certain law school and employment records in the 1980s–1990s.
+
+She denied opportunistic misrepresentation but later took a DNA test (2018) to demonstrate Native ancestry. The Cherokee Nation rejected DNA as a valid basis for tribal identity.
+
+* **Tier-1 (Immutable by Origin):** Application forms, faculty directories.
+* **Tier-2 (Constructed Evidence):** DNA test analysis, tribal press statements, public interviews.
+
+---
+
+## Known Immutable Processes & Records
+
+* University application and directory records.
+* Published DNA study.
+* Official tribal statements.
+* Public media coverage.
+
+---
+
+## Analyst Notes
+
+* **Civic Significance:**
+
+  * Demonstrates that official records are not always sufficient: they can encode claims that remain disputed.
+  * Shows why cultural and community authority must be preserved alongside institutional records.
+* **Civic Risk:**
+
+  * Collapsing the artifact set into “true/false” destroys nuance.
+* **Civic Value:**
+
+  * Preserving all linked artifacts side by side reflects civic reality: the record is permanently fractured, not resolved.
+
+---
+
+## Civic Consequence
+
+This case establishes **Contested Immutable Record (CIR)** as a CIVICVS category.
+
+Such artifacts show that official records, scientific evidence, and cultural authority can remain in permanent tension. Civic legitimacy requires preserving *all artifacts and their relationships*, not selecting one as “the truth.”
+
+---
+
+✅ **Status:** Foundation Document filed.
+**Category Established:** Contested Immutable Record (CIR).
+