Positive Re-evaluation Obligation

Canonical definition

The Positive Re-evaluation Obligation is the rule, within Cascading Consequences, that any incapacitation is justified only for so long as the enduring-threat finding on which it rests is affirmatively re-established on periodic review, and that the basis for incapacitation lapses if it is not positively renewed. Because incapacitation is justified solely by forward risk and never by desert, it has no standing basis once the forward risk is no longer positively established; the burden is therefore to re-establish the finding at each review, not on the contained Individual to earn release against a presumption of continued containment. The obligation is the maintenance form, at the scale of the single contained node, of the same principle that governs validated authority elsewhere in the framework, that a warrant is continuously validated rather than granted once and retained indefinitely.