Statement of reasons
A rulemaking body's own explanatory document, an Initial Statement of Reasons ahead of a proposal and a Final Statement of Reasons alongside adoption in California's practice, summarizing comments received and stating why the text did or did not change in response, distinct from and more directly citable than a reader's own inference.
Defined in 2 GAGE programs, which carry 2 distinct definitions of it. The wording above is taught in The AI Lobbyist: Certified AI Policy Strategist.
How each discipline defines it
The same term does different work depending on who is using it. These are the definitions as each program teaches them, unedited.
A rulemaking body's own explanatory document, an Initial Statement of Reasons ahead of a proposal and a Final Statement of Reasons alongside adoption in California's practice, summarizing comments received and stating why the text did or did not change in response, distinct from and more directly citable than a reader's own inference.
An explanation owed to a person affected by an automated decision (required for certain automated actions under regimes such as the EU Digital Services Act), which an organization can produce honestly only if its systems kept an action-level record of what was decided and why.
Where it is taught
The exact lessons this term appears in. The first module of every program is free with a free account.
- The agent audit trail: logging actions so you can reconstruct any decision it made · Agents Under Command, Certified AI Governance Professional (CAIGP)
- Reading a Draft Rule for What It Would Actually Do · Policy Influence in Practice, The AI Lobbyist: Certified AI Policy Strategist
Terms it appears with
Not an alphabetical neighbourhood: these are the terms taught in the same lessons, ranked by how often they appear together.