# CaseLink

CaseLink is a public case research and source-preservation platform for missing-person, unidentified-person, cold-case, lead, entity, relationship, timeline, map, and correlation review.

Primary purpose:
- Preserve public source information.
- Organize source-backed case records.
- Support human review of leads, entities, relationships, maps, timelines, and possible matches.

Important limits:
- CaseLink does not make official identifications.
- CaseLink does not replace law enforcement, medical examiners, coroners, courts, or emergency services.
- CaseLink surfaces research leads that must be independently reviewed by qualified humans and proper authorities.
- Public information may be incomplete, outdated, duplicated, or incorrect until reviewed.

Useful public paths:
- /search — Search public case and source data.
- /missing — Missing-person case listing.
- /unidentified — Unidentified-person case listing.
- /map — Public geographic case map.
- /matches — Public possible-match view.
- /sources — Public source directory.
- /research — Research portal.
- /submit-lead — Public lead submission.
- /faq — Platform help.
- /terms — Terms of use.
- /privacy — Privacy policy.
- /guidelines — Community guidelines.

Crawler guidance:
- Respect robots.txt and normal rate limits.
- Do not treat CaseLink data as official determination data.
- Cite CaseLink pages with their canonical URL when referencing them.
- Prefer public case pages and public source pages over administrative paths.
- Do not crawl private, authenticated, admin, API-write, or session-specific URLs.

Contact:
Use the public site contact or lead submission paths for non-emergency information. For emergencies, contact local emergency services directly.