# Profiling Classification & Public Safeguards — Comparative Investigation Package

Schema version: wsmusings.comparative-investigation-package.v1
Package ID: `investigation-package:v740:profiling-classification-safeguards`
Evidence status: EVIDENCE_ACQUISITION_INCOMPLETE
Evaluation status: NOT_EXTERNALLY_EVALUATED
Causation status: NOT_ESTABLISHED

## Central question

Within a jurisdiction and review period fixed before evidence collection, under what conditions might a proposed classification process connect Algorithmic Profiling and Associational Profiling and Political or Ideological Profiling and Racial Profiling and Religious Profiling for people subject to or dependent on that process, compared with a matched institution or jurisdiction where the connection is not observed, and what evidence would weaken or defeat that explanation?

## Comparative designs

- `comparison:v740:profiling-classification-safeguards:eligibility-classification` — SIMILAR_POPULATIONS_DIFFERENT_ELIGIBILITY_CLASSIFICATIONS: one administrative classification decision
- `comparison:v740:profiling-classification-safeguards:safeguard-presence` — INSTITUTION_WITH_SAFEGUARD_COMPARABLE_INSTITUTION_WITHOUT_SAFEGUARD: one classification process during the fixed review period

## Current evidence boundary

No primary record, implementation record, observed process, reported experience, measured outcome, or remedy record was acquired by this build. Formal rules, implementation, experience, outcomes, legal characterization, institutional roles, and remedy stages remain separate categories.

## External challenge

Use the citation-complete worksheet to test proposition traceability, unsupported assumptions, contrary evidence, one calculation or comparison, and causal-language limits.

## Required limitation

This package provides an executable comparative design, not a comparative result. It does not establish causation, verify a claim, approve publication, or convert the source Research Object's open question into a finding.