RLS 2022 is the first in a series of reports and datasets to be constructed and released on a regular basis. We anticipate our next edition to be released in 2023, reflecting the state of religious liberty heading into that year. Repeated updating, as often as annually, will allow for longitudinal analyses using our data. Not only will our safeguard codes and scores be updated based on relatively straightforward changes in state laws, our methodology is flexible enough to systematically incorporate a range of changes.  For example, a change in the federal context (e.g., Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization [2022]) will have significant impact on how the related safeguard’s codes are defined in 2023.  If any state creatively addresses existing safeguard areas in 2023, our codes can adjust to that as well. If any state addressed new issues, justifying new safeguard areas in 2023, our methodology for data collection is ready to consider that too.  Because we have started by making only limited use of external data sources and reports, due to their limited availability, we are not beholden to their update schedules or continued existence. We will continue to face constraints due to incomplete or emerging federal context, for example, or emerging areas of law that may be of intense interest but with no feasible way to code and score objectively. But these are simply limitations of quantification of qualitative data. Our commitment to objectivity can coexist with expanding and continuing these important efforts.