Searching the public record

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What you can type into the search box, and the two things it will not do.

What you can type

A search matches your words against each document’s title, summary, keywords, subject, agency name, docket number and form of guidance. It does not read the text inside the attached PDF.

licensing permits: Every word you type must be present. A document is a result only if all of the words appear somewhere in its record, in any order.
"open records": Words inside double quotes match as that phrase, in that order. A document carrying open in its title and records in its summary is not a match.
licensing or permits: The word or makes the words either side alternatives: a document carrying either one of them is a result.
licensing -draft: A minus sign immediately before a word excludes every document carrying that word. Leave no space between the minus sign and the word.

Two things that do not work

Both are habits a reader brings from elsewhere, and neither reports an error — the search simply answers a different question from the one you asked.

Typing AND or NOT has no effect. The search reads both as ordinary English words and drops them, so licensing NOT draft asks for documents carrying both words. Use a minus sign to exclude.
There is no wildcard. An asterisk is an ordinary character to the search, so licen* matches nothing and a partial word finds nothing; type whole words.

Docket numbers

A docket number finds its document whether you type it as 2026-14, as 2026 14 or as 202614, and that document is the first result.

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