> This is the Markdown form of https://fapd.info/sources/uscg-news.html. Content is licensed CC BY 4.0 > (credit "FAPD — Free Agentic Publication Digester"); quoted official government > text is public domain. For factual claims, cite the official source each item > links to. Canonical source: `sources/registry.yaml (id: uscg-news)` in https://github.com/davidkarnowski/free-agentic-publication-digester. # Coast Guard News Releases unavailable · Executive · Tier 2 · HTML index · Department of Homeland Security Official site: https://www.news.uscg.mil/ · All sources: [sources.md](../sources.md) ## What this source is The U.S. Coast Guard, within DHS, performs maritime safety, security, and law-enforcement missions. Its news site carries district and headquarters releases on search-and-rescue cases, interdictions, and maritime safety, typically several items per day. **Model-written orientation** The U.S. Coast Guard, part of the Department of Homeland Security, performs maritime safety, security, and law-enforcement missions and publishes news releases on search-and-rescue operations, interdictions, and maritime safety. The U.S. Coast Guard is a federal maritime service and military branch within the Department of Homeland Security responsible for maritime law enforcement, search and rescue, boating safety, environmental protection, and national security missions along the nation's coasts and waterways. Operating from district headquarters and hundreds of stations nationwide, the Coast Guard manages port security, conducts patrols, operates rescue vessels and aircraft, investigates maritime incidents, enforces fishing and environmental regulations, and coordinates maritime security operations. The Coast Guard maintains a news site carrying releases from its headquarters and district offices across the country. The site typically features several items per day documenting the agency's operational activities. Releases announce search-and-rescue cases and their outcomes, interdictions of vessels carrying contraband or engaged in illegal activities, responses to maritime environmental incidents, personnel announcements, new policies or procedures, investigations of vessel incidents, boating safety campaigns, and information about Coast Guard operational readiness. District offices issue local releases about activities in their regions, providing geographic specificity beyond what headquarters announcements can offer. Through its news releases, the Coast Guard documents its daily operational mission in the maritime domain. The releases provide official documentation of rescue operations, law-enforcement activities, and maritime safety initiatives. In the digest, Coast Guard releases represent a record of the agency's work across an enormous geographic area and broad mission set. Readers encounter concrete accounts of specific operations—a rescue at sea, an interdiction at a port, a response to a maritime hazard—alongside announcements about broader policies or safety initiatives. These releases offer insight into the operational scope and geography of federal maritime law enforcement and safety activities. _Model-written orientation, generated 2026-08-04 by haiku, prompt version 1. It may draw on general knowledge of public institutions and is not official-record content._ ## Identity and registry record | Field | Value | |---|---| | Registry id | `uscg-news` | | Agency / parent organization | Department of Homeland Security | | Branch | executive | | Type | HTML index | | Status | unavailable | | Tier | 2 | | URL (home) | https://www.news.uscg.mil/ | | Registered | 2026-07-26 | | Registry notes | Runs on the DoD DVIDS-backed news platform (news.uscg.mil), separate from uscg.mil. Probed 2026-07-26: robots.txt disallows our identified client for this path. Not fetched, per GUIDE §3 (no evasion). Fallback channels (GovDelivery email) to evaluate. Email sibling registered 2026-07-29: uscg-email (GUIDE §3 email class; the web status here is unchanged). | ## How we ingest it | Term | Description | |---|---| | Channel | HTML index | | Method | HTML index diff via AgencyClient (pending viability check) | | Request budget | the agency class: at most 3,000 requests per day shared across every agency web source, counted from the fetch log (failed requests count too) | | Politeness | robots.txt is honored as observed — including each host's crawl-delay, exactly — and every request identifies itself as fapd/0.1 (Free Agentic Publication Digester; +https://fapd.info/bot.html; contact: hustleyourcity@gmail.com); a refusal is recorded, never evaded | | Capture and hash | captured raw content is hashed (SHA-256) into the day's committed provenance manifest, hash-chained day to day (PROVENANCE.md) | ## Ingestion health Not ingested: the registry status of this source is unavailable. ## Ingestion statistics These figures describe this project's ingestion of this source — items we recorded and requests we made — and nothing else. They are not a measurement of the publisher. Not ingested: the registry status of this source is unavailable. Ingestion statistics are measured for active sources only. ### All time No requests to www.news.uscg.mil are recorded in the request log. ### Last 30 days, day by day No requests and no items were recorded in the last 30 days, so there is nothing to chart.