Mast tracks state half-staff orders from official government sources. This directory lists the source registry used for state flag-status pages, source links, and state-specific verification notes.
States publish flag orders in different formats. Some provide a current flag-status page, while others publish dated governor news releases, executive orders, PDFs, or archive posts.
Alabama's Governor flag memos category is the primary feed for dated half-staff directives; the dedicated Flag Status page remains a fallback for current status.
Alaska publishes Status of the Flag archive posts for historical notices and a dedicated current Status of the Flag page for the active flag status.
The notices page includes a Flag Status section and dated gubernatorial half-staff notices. The FAQ page documents Arizona flag authority and half-staff policy context.
Arkansas publishes half-staff directives as Governor newsroom posts. The Secretary of State flag protocol page confirms notices are posted on the Governor's website.
California publishes half-staff directives as Governor newsroom posts rather than a dedicated current flag status page. The importer searches official posts for half-staff notices and dated lowering windows.
Colorado publishes a dedicated current Flag Status page with ephemeral full-staff or half-staff status and official Governor news posts for dated half-staff directives. The importer reads the live flag-status signal first, creates an observed same-day event if that page reports half-staff without a matching dated notice, and parses dated Governor news posts when discoverable.
Connecticut publishes half-staff directives as Governor press releases. The importer reads the Governor press-release index filtered to half-staff notices and parses registered release URLs for dated lowering windows.
Delaware publishes a Flag Status archive with the current flag status label and Governor flag status posts. The subscription page documents immediate Office of Management and Budget notifications for flag status changes.
The DC Office of the Secretary publishes a current Flag Status page for the U.S. and DC flags. The District flag protocol manual documents that only the Mayor of the District of Columbia can order the District flag to half-staff, and that presidential U.S. flag orders are supplemented for the District flag.
Florida publishes half-staff directives on the Executive Office of the Governor Flag Information page and individual Governor press or memorandum pages. The importer derives current status from dated notices such as sunrise-to-sunset and until-sunset lowering windows.
Georgia publishes half-staff orders in the Governor's Executive Orders archive and related press releases. The importer derives current status from dated executive-order descriptions and links to the official PDF or press-release source.
Hawaii publishes official Governor Flag Orders as newsroom posts and offers a dedicated subscription page for flag orders. The importer discovers recent flag-order posts and derives current status from dated lowering windows in the official notices.
Idaho publishes a dedicated Governor Flag Status page with current U.S. and Idaho flag labels, active directive text, and a flag notification signup link. The importer reads the current labels and parses dated lowering windows from the active page and registered directive pages.
Illinois publishes an official Flag Honors page with flag honor policy, current or latest status text, and alert signup details. Historical flag orders are exposed through Illinois.gov search results, so the importer reads the current status page plus the official search feed and parses concrete sunrise, sunset, noon, and multi-day lowering windows when official Illinois notice text is present.
Indiana publishes Governor half-staff directives as official State of Indiana event-platform press releases. The importer parses registered Governor releases for sunrise-to-sunset, sunrise-to-noon, immediate-through-sunset, county-specific, statewide, and multi-day lowering windows.
Iowa publishes Governor half-staff orders as official Governor press releases discoverable from the Governor newsroom half-staff search. The importer discovers search-result press releases before parsing individual releases for sunrise-to-sunset, immediate-until-sunset, remain-at-half-staff, interment/funeral-date, and multi-day lowering windows.
Kansas publishes an official Flag Honors page with a current flag status label and alert signup. The importer polls official Kansas Office of the Governor GovDelivery bulletins and parses sunup-to-sundown, sunup-to-noon, immediate-until-sundown, county-specific, statewide, interment-date, and multi-day lowering windows.
Kentucky publishes flag protocol and subscription links on the Governor flag-status page and dated half-staff directives in the Kentucky.gov Governor activity stream. The importer parses registered Governor releases for sunrise-to-sunset, sunrise-to-noon, until-sunset, interment-date, federal-concurrence, and multi-day lowering windows.
Louisiana publishes a current Governor flag status page and dated Governor news pages for some half-staff orders. The importer reads the current half-staff label and parses registered Governor notices for sunrise-to-sunset, until-sunset, and multi-day lowering windows.
Maine publishes Governor flag-lowering directives as official newsroom posts. The importer discovers recent flag-lowering and half-staff notices from the Governor newsroom and search results, then parses 12:01 a.m.-to-noon, sunrise-to-sunset, until-sunset, and multi-day lowering windows.
Maryland publishes a current Secretary of State Flag Status page and a Past Flag Status archive with dated alerts. The importer reads the current U.S. and Maryland flag label and parses archived sunrise-to-sunset, sunrise-to-noon, until-sunset, and dated multi-day lowering windows.
Massachusetts publishes a Mass.gov current flag status page with ephemeral status text and occasional dated Governor press releases for half-staff directives. The importer reads the current flag status label, creates an observed same-day event when the page reports half-staff without a dated notice, and parses registered Governor notices for sunrise-to-sunset, sunrise-to-noon, immediate-through-date, until-date, and multi-day lowering windows.
Michigan publishes a Flag Honors page with current flag honor status and policy, plus a filtered Governor press-release feed for Flag Honors. The importer reads the current flag status label, discovers recent Flag Honors press releases from the official filtered search endpoint, and parses Governor notices for one-day, two-day, immediately-through-date, return-to-full-staff, and sunrise-to-noon lowering windows.
Minnesota publishes Governor flag status notices on an official flag-status page with RSS and HTML feed endpoints. The importer reads feed entries as individual notices and parses sunrise-to-sunset, sunrise-to-noon, sunrise-through-sunset, immediate-through-date, and remain-through-date lowering windows.
Mississippi publishes a dedicated Governor Flag Status page with current U.S. flag status and historical Flag Status Executive Orders. The importer reads the current flag label and parses official order text for sunrise-to-sunset, sunrise-to-noon, immediate-through-sunset, and dated one-day lowering windows.
Missouri publishes a dedicated Office of Administration Flag Notifications archive plus Governor press releases. The importer derives current status from retained dated notices and parses sunrise-to-sunset one-day orders, sunrise-to-noon Memorial Day notices, and beginning/immediate-through-date lowering windows.
Montana does not expose a reliable machine-readable current flag status; the public flag-status utility renders both full-staff and half-staff states. The importer treats Montana as limited official-news discovery, queries the Governor newsroom article JSON when available, keeps known Governor notice URLs as fallbacks, derives current status only from retained dated notices, and parses today, sunrise-to-sunset, until-date, until-sunset, and multi-day lowering windows.
Nebraska publishes Governor half-staff directives as official Governor press releases and flag authority guidance on the Governor's Office Flag Policy page. The importer discovers recent half-staff notices from the official press-release index and parses one-day, sunrise/dawn-to-sunset, dawn-to-noon, until-sunset, and exact multi-day lowering windows.
Nevada publishes a dedicated Governor flag status page with ephemeral current full-staff or half-staff state, plus Governor half-staff directives through official Governor news releases, proclamations, and executive orders. The importer reads the current flag-status page first, creates an observed same-day event if that page reports half-staff without a matching dated notice, then parses one-day, today/tomorrow, sunrise-to-sunset, 12:01 a.m.-to-noon, and until-sunset lowering windows from official notices.
New Hampshire publishes Governor flag directives through the official Governor press release page, which is JavaScript-backed and may deny direct server fetches. The importer derives current status from retained dated notices in the official press-release listing and parses one-day, Memorial Day sunrise-to-noon, sunrise-to-sunset, and until-sunset lowering windows; the official RSA flag code is retained as protocol context.
New Jersey publishes current flag status and an archive of flag status notifications on the Department of State flag status page, with linked Governor news posts and executive orders. The importer parses the status page and retained Governor notices for one-day, date-through-date, and through-sunset lowering windows.
New Mexico publishes a current flag-status image on the Governor homepage, an Executive Orders index that exposes half-staff order PDFs, and searchable Governor press releases with dated lowering windows. The importer reads the homepage current-status signal, discovers half-staff press releases and Executive Order PDFs, keeps press releases as parseable dated notice sources, and parses beginning-through-sundown, sunrise-through-sundown, from-date-to-date, and same-month short end-date lowering windows.
New York publishes Governor half-staff directives as official Governor news posts. The importer discovers recent directives from the official Governor news search for half-staff and parses one-day sunrise-to-sunset notices, tomorrow/date headlines, immediate-through-sunset notices, explicit date-time ranges, until-sunset orders, and sunrise-to-noon windows.
North Carolina publishes official flag alerts through the Department of Administration, which alerts state agencies and the public when the Governor orders flags lowered. The importer discovers recent alerts from the official Flag Alerts page and parses one-day, sunrise-to-sunset, immediate-until-sunset, beginning-through-sunset, and multi-day lowering windows.
North Dakota publishes Governor flag directives as official Governor news posts, with a dedicated Flag Directives category feed. The importer reads that category feed as the primary source, records linked directive detail pages for traceability, and parses one-day, dawn-to-dusk, sunrise-to-sunset, sunrise-to-noon, until-sunset, until-midnight, and multi-day lowering windows.
Ohio publishes Governor flag-lowering directives through official Governor GovDelivery bulletins and related Statehouse notices. The importer discovers recent half-staff notices from the Governor bulletin index and parses one-day, sunrise-to-sunset, exact funeral-date, until-sunset, and multi-day lowering windows.
Oklahoma publishes the active Governor flag status in the site chrome, but dated Governor newsroom directives are the authoritative source for event windows. The importer does not create same-day synthetic events from the generic half-staff status page; it parses explicit local time ranges, one-day orders, until-sunset ranges, and multi-day lowering windows from newsroom notices.
Oregon publishes Governor half-staff notices in the official Oregon Newsroom and flag protocol guidance through DAS. The importer derives current status from retained dated notices and parses sunrise-to-noon, midnight-to-sunset, sunrise-to-sunset, until-sunset, and multi-day lowering windows.
Pennsylvania publishes current U.S. and Commonwealth flag status through DGS and Governor flag directives as official Governor newsroom posts. The importer discovers recent half-staff notices from the Governor newsroom and parses one-day, immediate-through-date, until-sunset, interment-date, and sunrise-to-noon lowering windows.
Rhode Island publishes current U.S. and Rhode Island flag status on the Governor homepage and Governor flag directives as official press releases. The importer discovers recent half-staff notices from the press release index and parses one-day, through-weekday, through-date, sunrise-to-noon, and until-interment lowering windows.
South Carolina publishes Governor flag-lowering notices in the official Governor news archive and executive orders. The importer discovers recent half-staff notices from the news archive and executive-order indexes and parses one-day, same-day, sunrise-to-sunset, sunrise-to-noon, and open-ended interment patterns.
South Dakota publishes Governor flag advisories through official news.sd.gov knowledge articles in a paginated ServiceNow news archive. The importer queries the public archive search for recent half-staff articles, keeps known article URLs as fallbacks, derives current status from retained dated advisories, and parses State Capitol and statewide one-day sunrise-to-sunset or sunrise-to-noon orders plus immediate-through-concrete-interment-date windows.
Tennessee publishes current flag status through the official TN.gov Flag Status page. Governor dated notices are less consistently exposed as article pages, so the importer treats the flag-status page as the live signal and can parse Governor/news text when discoverable or provided by the source cache.
Texas publishes current flag status through the official Governor flag-status page and dated half-staff directives as Governor news posts. The importer discovers recent half-staff notices from the Governor news index and parses statewide, state-government, and local orders with through-sunset, return-at-sunrise, and within-ten-days windows.
Utah publishes current flag status and recent flag orders on the official Governor flag-status page, with related Governor press releases. The importer parses the flag-status history and release pages for immediate-through-sunset, sunrise-to-sunset, midnight-to-midnight, Memorial Day noon, and open-ended interment patterns.
Vermont publishes Governor flag-lowering directives as official Governor press releases. The current press-release indexes return 404 to direct fetches, so the importer pulls the official Governor homepage and retained official release URLs while parsing one-day sunrise-to-sunset orders and through-date windows, skipping open-ended funeral or interment notices when a concrete date is unavailable.
Virginia publishes current national and state flag status on the official Governor Flag Information page and current/past flag orders in the official Flag Order Archive. The importer reads the live full-staff or half-staff status, discovers archive order links, and parses one-day sunrise-to-sunset orders, sunrise-to-noon Memorial Day orders, state-and-local-building scopes, and retained archive active dates.
Washington publishes Governor flag-lowering policy and official flag directives through Governor and state agency pages. The importer derives current status from retained dated directives and parses one-day, immediate-through-date, return-to-half-staff, and sunrise-to-noon lowering windows.
West Virginia publishes current full-staff or half-staff status on the official Governor flag-status block and Governor flag directives as official news articles. The importer reads the live status, discovers recent flag-order articles from the Governor news index, and parses noon starts, same-day daylight orders, sunset-through-date windows, county and state-facility scopes, and open-ended interment notices when no concrete end date is available.
Wisconsin publishes current flag status and archived flag-lowering orders through the official Wisconsin Department of Military Affairs flag lowering orders page. The importer reads the DMA current status, discovers individual archived order pages, and keeps Governor GovDelivery bulletins as a fallback for older notices.
Wyoming publishes current full-staff or half-staff status on the official Governor flag-status page and dated Governor flag-lowering directives as official Governor news releases. The importer reads the live flag-status signal first, creates an observed same-day event if that page reports half-staff without a matching dated notice, searches the official Governor news-release API for half-staff releases, and retains older GovDelivery bulletin URLs as fallback sources while parsing immediate-through-date orders, sunrise-to-sundown interment-day orders, sunrise-to-noon Memorial Day orders, statewide and county/capitol scopes, and open-ended interment notices when no concrete end date is available.
Mast uses this registry to explain each state page and to keep source links close to the flag-status result. Parser behavior can still vary by state because each official website publishes notices differently.