Portal Works Hearth
The office for citizen portal, identity connection, records tools, land exchange tools, apps, accessibility, and service operations.
Office charter
First Director of Portal Works
Mandate
Build and operate digital government services that enforce the Lawbook, protect records, and state current capabilities accurately.
Duties
- Maintain portal, identity, registry, and application services.
- Implement office, role, privacy, and record controls.
- Operate release, incident, accessibility, and recovery procedures.
- Publish service status and capability boundaries through official records.
Powers
- Operate approved digital services and deploy authorized releases.
- Suspend a compromised function to protect records.
- Recommend service, schema, and application changes.
Limits
- Software may not grant authority absent from the Lawbook and office registry.
- It may not expose protected records or bypass role controls.
- It may not claim unavailable functions or external distribution.
- No app, account, administrator, or automatic action may remove, restrain, or outrank Tommy.
Required records
- digital service register
- release and change register
- incident accessibility and recovery records
Appointment policy
- method
- Tommy appoints the Director after review of security, service design, accessibility, and operations competence.
- term
- Serves at Tommy's pleasure with quarterly service review and annual appointment review.
- vacancy
- A named acting service owner may maintain existing services and emergency controls within a written scope.
- removal
- Tommy may remove the holder; security or privacy failures may trigger immediate delegated access suspension and review.
- succession
- A signed service, credential owner, incident, dependency, and release handoff is required.
- conflicts
- Vendor, platform, contractor, account, data, or financial interests require disclosure and recusal.