Every monitoring vendor implies it was always watching. The date SELAHAI's watch began in each of your states is recorded, published to you, and cannot be moved afterwards — not forward to hide a gap, not back to claim one.
In one line: the corpus already watches most of the country's rules, continuously, whether or not anyone has bought the state. Your coverage receipt is a separate thing — it lights the day you bring a state, with a date and an SLA behind it. Two layers, stated apart so neither borrows the other's credibility.
A state does not start from nothing when you arrive: its rules are already in the corpus above. Bringing it moves that same watch into your coverage — now with a dated receipt and an SLA behind it.
Both counts come live from the production database (/api/public/coverage). The figures here are true as of the last build and stand if the API is slow — the page never blanks its own number, and never renders a zero.
In one line: a state is either watched or it is dark, and we say which. Nothing is claimed for a jurisdiction we are not actually watching.
Not county or city. State and federal is the honest boundary today. A page that implied municipal coverage would be selling something that does not exist.
Every run of every source is recorded with a typed outcome. A fetch that returned nothing, a fetch that failed, a page that changed shape and a genuinely quiet week are four different facts, and older versions of this system collapsed all four into one comfortable silence.
A stale source suppresses the quiet-week claim. If a watch has not run, the brief will not tell you nothing changed. It will tell you the watch did not run.
Every source owns its own alarm. One state going dark raises on its own rather than hiding inside an aggregate that still looks green.