The List Before the Ratings

On October 27, 2021, a Washington Parents United post described recruiting volunteers, searching school holdings and collecting book information across districts.

On October 30, 2021, a saved record dates the creation of the LaVerna in the Library Facebook page to that day.

On November 5, 2021, Brooke Stephens uploaded a video, "How to find books in Utah Public School District Libraries," part of a tutorial sequence linked from Utah Parents United's LaVerna page. On November 23, she uploaded "Book Spreadsheet Introduction." KUER separately reported that she was leading a Facebook effort to identify books in Utah schools.

On March 26, 2022, the Deseret News reported that Utah Parents United linked to a list of nearly 600 titles drawn from Goodreads and other databases. The list's source labels closely match the surviving working spreadsheet.

On July 5, 2023, in an interview, Stephens said she copied Indiana's Mary image for a USA page, named Utah's page LaVerna, and started other states after announcing it at a national advocacy meeting.

On March 24, 2022, the RatedBooks.org domain was re-registered. An unrelated site used the domain in 2015–2016.

Google Drive details date "Rated Book Review List: Author, Publisher and URL" to April 7, 2022. Some titles now dated April 14 had blank Date Added cells in the Legislature’s 2022 copy. That makes April 14 an unconfirmed import date.

On May 6, 2022, Google Drive file details identify Mary in the Library USA as owner of a copy of Natalie Cline's May 4 Draft 2 of a library model policy. Hosting the copy does not identify its author.

Saved pages from May 18 to 21, 2022 show RatedBooks’ earlier Wix site, its 1–5 scale and pages for several states. RatedBooks still redirects there. A May 19 saved page requires phone verification or a callback form to continue.

The saved RatedBooks homepage from March 8, 2026 links to LaVerna's Facebook group. Beside that link, it lists the same public email used in RatedBooks' incorporation filing.

The minutes identify Stephens with Utah Parents United and record her and Diane Livingston discussing school sensitive materials. The legislative archive holds a handout titled "Rated Book Review List, October 2022".

On August 28, 2026, the RatedBooks Advocate page directed readers from reports and slicksheets to Amplify contacts, running a bill and creating a policy. The page was viewed on that date; its launch date is unknown.