PLANNED MEMBER SERVICE
Ask-a-TASFGA.
Ask-a-TASFGA is a service TASFGA plans to offer once incorporated. As planned, it will deliver a governance answer, not a legal opinion — primary-source research, written in plain English. Quick lookups would be staff-researched and included with membership. Deep research questions would receive counsel review before delivery.
What you can ask about
- How a board, agency, municipality, or elected official is structured — charter, bylaws, ordinance, enabling statute.
- What procedure should apply to a given decision — notice, quorum, disclosure, recusal, voting, recordkeeping.
- Where to find the primary sources — registries, filings, meeting minutes, FOIL/FOIA pathways.
- What a standard looks like in comparable jurisdictions or institutions.
- How a specific gap in law, rule, or enforcement plays out in practice.
What Ask-a-TASFGA will not do
- Give you an opinion on the legal merit of your personal case or dispute.
- Draft or review litigation, contracts, settlement terms, or adversarial correspondence.
- Predict outcomes or suggest strategy.
- Answer questions about entities TASFGA is actively profiling (conflict check applies; question credit refunded).
Two tiers of questions
Quick Lookup free with membership
Staff-researched, 2-hour cap. Points you to the right primary sources and tells you what they say. No counsel review — this is a research pointer, not a legal deliverable.
- Individual members: 1 free per month
- Contributor members: 2 free per month
- Turnaround: 3–5 business days
Deep Research $150 / question (members) · $300 (non-members)
Full-scope governance research. As planned: AI-assisted initial pass, human researcher verification, and counsel review before delivery. Where a question receives counsel review, the reviewing attorney's bar admission would be named on the delivered answer.
- Turnaround: 5–10 business days (Individual), 3–5 (Contributor, priority), SLA-defined (Institutional)
- Typical length: 2–8 pages, primary-source cited throughout
- Published answers feed back into the member research library
How it works
- Submit via the member portal. Describe the governance body and the specific decision or document at issue. Select Quick Lookup or Deep Research.
- Triage within 2 business days. Out-of-scope questions are flagged immediately — no charge, referral to a state-bar Lawyer Referral Service if appropriate.
- Research & draft — AI-assisted sourcing pass, then human researcher verification and drafting against primary sources.
- Counsel review (Deep Research only) — where a question receives counsel review, the reviewing attorney's bar admission would appear on the delivered answer.
- Delivery — email + member dashboard archive.
Quotas, rollover, refunds
- Free quick-lookup quotas reset on the 1st of each month. Unused lookups do not roll over.
- Deep research questions are pay-per-question — no quota, no cap.
- Out-of-scope questions (triage rejection): no charge; deep-research fee refunded in full.
- Conflict-check hit (entity TASFGA is actively profiling): no charge; flagged at triage.
- Membership refunds available within 30 days of purchase if no lookups or deep research have been delivered.
Confidentiality
Submissions and delivered answers are private to the asking member by default. TASFGA may publish anonymized versions in the Samples archive if the question illustrates a broader governance pattern — always with identifying details removed and with the asker's opt-in consent.
The member portal and payment processing go live once TASFGA is incorporated and its tax-exempt status is determined. Until then, email contact@tasfga.com to join the founding-cohort list.