9 September 2026. Root stopped original-notice recovery after the planned credible alternative: ordinary GET of the current official news page and inspection of its server-rendered publication data. Statutory reading and independent notice-comparison are the remaining lanes of this bounded run.
The [San Francisco Chronicle report](http[local research file] dated17July2026, says the July16 notices cite the47-AG warning as earlier notice. It describes confidential app attachments unavailable to the newspaper, a28-day response request and threatened civil enforcement. This is a reported document connection; root has not acquired those notices or attachments. Root read complete article body121-179, with title/date. The newspaper supplies no original-notice download in the inspected links.
[WIRED's report](http[local research file] publishes named spokesperson statements: Google says five identified apps were suspended; Apple says three were removed, developer termination was in progress and four others were required to address violations. These are company accounts to a reporter, not independently observed removals, dated transaction logs or proof of payment disconnection. They are tied to the later San Francisco intervention, not replies to NAAG. Root read the full substantive body65-89 and update time; notice originals were not linked.
[TechCrunch](http[local research file] also publishes company responses; its update records comments added17July. This is an interview record, not a public counsel-to-city reply. Root read110-123 and followed its WIRED link. Conflicting comment-availability statements across articles may reflect publication/update times; no substantive contradiction is inferred merely from one outlet initially lacking comment.
No user uploaded images, violating app use, account access or source contact was involved. Specific apps were not sought. Reported download/revenue estimates and the researchers' underlying measurements were not accepted or newly investigated.
The official current news page http[local research file] returned200 through one ordinary GET after the prior lane's web reader returned only a sparse page. Retained official-news.html has244,772bytes and SHA256 d71369491cf1bc11e71ba2cf720113df8e4414203b684176aba09d6403d3fe47. The page's publicly delivered NEXT_DATA contains100 news entries out of a stated252, dated26August2026 through4December2024. Root inspected the structure, searched titles/metadata for Apple/Google/deepfake/nudify and examined dated entries bracketing July2026. No target notice appeared in that delivered subset. This is not a complete site, attachment repository or office-record search.
The subset includes a June2025 website-enforcement announcement, a distinct earlier case not opened. Its existence is a lead, not evidence about the July2026 platform notices. Three targeted web queries for dated Chiu letters, the official media domain and the current official domain did not yield an acquired original. Broad results were largely unrelated; no claim of exhaustive result reading is made. Prior eighteen-query response searches were not repeated.
The public page exposes its backing read API URL, but no further endpoint or private document enumeration was attempted. This run stops recovery here as planned. Missing records are the actual notices, confidential service-specific attachments, proof of delivery, replies and resulting directions. Their absence from the inspected news subset does not mean the office withheld, censored or never published them.
Root read the complete current [California Civil Code1708.86](http[local research file] body56-186. Subdivision(c)(2) supplies a specific route: sufficient evidence from a depicted person or public prosecutor, identifying an enabling service relationship, plus failure to take necessary cessation steps within30days of receipt, with a court-extension provision. The service definition is primary-purpose based. The provision creates a presumption; it does not make a press release a judgment. The28-day reported demand must remain separate from this statutory30-day condition. Detailed elements, exceptions, remedies and enactment source are in statutory-mechanism.md; independent comparison with the earlier general letter is in notice-bridge-review.md.
The evidence now supports separate levels: current statutory design; earlier collective demand; later notices and company responses as attributed reporting; actual merchant/payment outcomes still unverified. No graph edge should silently collapse those levels. Public research/local construction remain authorized; requests for nonpublic correspondence would require further authority.