Official AI Connector

What it will do

The planned Model Context Protocol (MCP) server will give AI assistants read-only access to special education administrative decisions available at specialedlaw.com. The database covers Massachusetts, Connecticut, California, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, subject to the connected member's entitlements. Every record is a public, already-published decision or ruling, and results will include source URLs for citation. The connector will never create, update, delete, send, or publish anything.

Availability

Connection instructions will appear here when the connector is released. It is planned as a Pro feature using secure OAuth sign-in and read-only permissions. Pro's website search and AI research features do not depend on the connector and remain available without it.

Planned tools

All 5 planned tools are read-only and will never modify data.

• search_special_education_decisionsFull-text or multi-term fact-pattern search across available state decisions, with filters for type, outcome, adjudicator, district, and date range.
• get_special_education_decisionRetrieve the full public text and citation URL of one decision or ruling by identifier, with an optional citation network showing which decisions cite it and which it cites.
• get_special_education_statisticsExact counts and breakdowns across available decisions, grouped by adjudicator, school district, outcome, type, issue tag, or time period.
• lookup_agency_procedure_rulesLook up state-agency hearing rules, standing orders, and procedures by topic or rule number.
• lookup_special_education_regulationsLook up state special education laws and regulations, or the federal IDEA regulations, by topic or citation.

Example prompts

• Search the Massachusetts BSEA decisions for cases about extended school year (ESY) services for a student with autism where the parents prevailed, and summarize the reasoning.
• I represent a family against a Massachusetts district on a unilateral private placement / tuition reimbursement claim involving a reading disability. Find the most relevant BSEA precedent and group it into favorable and unfavorable cases.
• What is hearing officer Lindsay’s track record on residential placement disputes — how many decisions, what outcomes, and which school districts appear most often?
• Look up the BSEA hearing rule on postponements and tell me the timeline and standard.
• Compare BSEA decisions 2024-00123 and 2023-04567 — are they from the same hearing officer or district, and how did the outcomes differ?

Data, privacy & security

When released, the connector will read only the legal research materials available under your Pro entitlement. It will not access ChatGPT or Claude memory, chat history, or uploaded files, and it will not receive the surrounding conversation. OAuth tokens will be stored only as cryptographic hashes, Pro access will be checked on every request, and connector tool calls will not be recorded as product-analytics events. See our Privacy Policy for details on what we collect and how long we keep it.

Not legal advice

The connector will be a legal-research tool over public records. Its results will not be legal advice or create an attorney-client relationship. Users must verify every citation against the linked public source before relying on it.

Support

Questions about the planned connector? Contact us at info@specialedlaw.com.