Sic Semper Errata

Sic Semper Errata is public-records software for New Jersey municipalities. It brings an OPRA request’s intake, deadlines, record review, redaction decisions, response letters, and audit history into one case record, so a clerk can show what arrived, what was searched, what was withheld and why, and what was delivered.

Where it stands

The current release is the v0.1.1 reference demo, Bellwether, at demo.sicsempererrata.com. It runs a fictional municipality, the Borough of Bellwether, in a temporary workspace that is yours alone for thirty minutes. Municipal sign-in, live connections to file shares and mail, and production deployment are still in development. The user guides describe what the demo does today and where it stops.

Who it is for

The first user is the municipal records officer. The first buyer is the clerk or administrator of a municipality with fewer than ten thousand residents. Automation may recommend a classification, a deadline, or a redaction; a named person approves it, and the record keeps both the recommendation and the decision.

Why the name

[sic] preserves what a source actually said. A notice of errata records a correction without pretending the defect never happened. SSE keeps both the original and the history of every change, in the software’s audit record and on this site. “Thus always to paperwork” is not a faithful translation of sic semper errata. That is the first erratum, and the only one we intend to keep.

Publisher and responsibility

Sic Semper Errata is published by the Jacobrakai Foundation. It provides records-workflow software, not legal advice or representation. The public agency using it retains responsibility for access, exemptions, redaction, retention, and release decisions. The Bellwether source code is held in private repositories; there is no self-service installation.