Best comments
Name the topic or section, propose a precise improvement, explain what risk the change reduces, and include an official source or practical reason when possible.
PUBLIC FEEDBACK TRIAGE
Turn public comments into safer, clearer, more useful improvements.
FOCaF needs public review, but it does not need private case files. This page shows how to sort comments, protect children and families, and route urgent or professional issues to the right doors.
PUBLIC COMMENT BOUNDARIES
Feedback should improve the public draft, not become a private case file.
Comments to redirect
Private allegations, child names, sealed court records, medical details, and identifying family facts should not be sent to FOCaF or posted for public review.
Official help first
Emergency, legal, child-safety, clinical, and school-procedure questions belong with the correct official or professional channel before any public policy discussion.
TRIAGE BUCKETS
Sort useful feedback by the public problem it helps solve.
Draft-language feedback
Suggested wording, overbreadth concerns, definitions, due-process questions, constitutional issues, and implementation details that can be reviewed without private facts.
Family-tool feedback
Confusing page language, missing official-resource links, accessibility barriers, printable worksheet problems, school/provider coordination needs, and child-burden concerns.
Safety review feedback
Places where language could minimize abuse, coercive control, trauma, fear, developmental needs, mixed dynamics, or a child-safety concern.
Local-resource feedback
Official county, court, school, 211, legal-aid, or crisis-routing corrections for Maine pages. These should include official links whenever possible.
PUBLIC REVIEW SCRIPT
A safe way to ask for input.
Useful format: “I reviewed the page or section about [topic]. I suggest changing [specific language or resource link] to [specific improvement] because it reduces [confusion, safety risk, overbreadth, implementation risk, or child burden]. Source or reason: [public source or practical explanation].”
Boundary: Do not include child names, private allegations, medical details, sealed records, confidential court documents, or identifying family facts.
RELATED REVIEW TOOLS
Keep the workflow public, bounded, and traceable.
Public review quality
Use the quality checklist before adding new RFC topics, local pages, or public-resource claims.
Open checklistRFC template
Use the public template for section-specific comments that avoid private family facts.
Open templateContent governance
Review the editorial boundary between family help, public education, RFC work, and the campaign lane.
Open governance