Steven Cooper

Steven Cooper is the founder and editor of permitbystate.com. He oversees the site's editorial standards, citation review, and regulatory coverage decisions across the state-by-state guide verticals (licensing, permitting, and compliance topics).

Research is AI-assisted — drafting uses Anthropic's Claude Sonnet and Google's Gemini, working from authoritative source material: OpenStates legislative data, the U.S. Congress.gov API, federal agency publications, and a curated federal-citation set. Every page passes an automated legal-accuracy gate before publish; pages flagged for topical incoherence are reviewed and corrected against a citation-relevance rubric.

permitbystate.com does not provide legal advice. The information here is general regulatory reference material; consult a licensed attorney in your jurisdiction for guidance specific to your situation.