JetSweep is an accountability-reporting project about the aircraft used by college athletics programs and the boosters and companies connected to them. These flights are paid for, in large part, with public money or by publicly accountable institutions. How they travel is a legitimate matter of public interest.
Public institutions, public money
Most of the institutions we cover are public universities (government bodies whose records are subject to open-records laws) or publicly traded and publicly accountable companies tied to boosters and donors. Recruiting travel, booster activity, and the movement of institutional aircraft are subjects that the public has a reasonable interest in understanding. Our purpose is reporting and analysis, not surveillance of private individuals.
We report on aircraft and institutions, not on people’s whereabouts
Our subject is the aircraft and the institution or entity associated with it. We do not present JetSweep as a way to find where any specific individual is at a given moment, and we do not solicit or encourage anyone to act on a person’s location.
Claims about who was on board
Knowing that a program’s aircraft flew a route is not the same as knowing who was aboard. We hold occupant claims to a strict evidentiary standard:
- We do not assert that any named person was on a flight unless we have documentation. Acceptable evidence includes records obtained through public-records or Freedom of Information Act requests (for example, a university travel manifest), or clear photographic or video evidence of a person boarding or aboard the aircraft.
- Where we have that evidence, we cite it. Where we don’t, we describe the flight at the level we can actually support (the aircraft, its operator, the route) and nothing more.
- We distinguish between what is documented and what is inferred, and we label inference as inference. See confidence tiers.
Anti-harassment
JetSweep is not intended to harass, intimidate, stalk, or endanger anyone. We do not publish home addresses or other private contact information of individuals, and we do not encourage anyone to use this site to confront or follow a person. Reporting on the travel of public institutions is the goal; targeting individuals is not. Our Terms of Use prohibit using the site for harassment or to endanger anyone.
Corrections
We want to be accurate, and we treat corrections seriously. If you believe something on JetSweep is wrong (a misattributed aircraft, an outdated owner, an unsupported claim), tell us and we will review it promptly and correct what we get wrong.
Corrections and questions: jetsweepcfb@gmail.com.
Removal & privacy requests
If you are connected to an aircraft or entity featured here and want to raise a privacy or removal concern, you can write to us at the address above. We will consider every request in good faith and weigh it against the public interest in the information. We can’t promise to remove accurate, public-interest reporting, but we will always correct genuine inaccuracies and will give every request a real review.