Interested in California’s court budget? This analysis from the Legislative Analyst’s Office, The 2017-18 Budget: Judicial Branch, lays out some of the key things to know about how the courts are spending money. In this web post, we provide an overview of the judicial branch and the level of funding proposed in the Governor’s 2017-18 budget. We also assess and make recommendations … Read More
Eviction Lab map and datasets
Princeton University’s Eviction Lab has a robust set of data, maps, and visuals that show the level of Eviction cases and problems around the U.S. You can explore the map to see rates of evictions, numbers of evictions, rates of evictions, rates of filings, and census demographics about poverty and housing. You can compare them with national averages.
Eviction rates data and visualization
Chris Herron has published an online visual/infographic on U.S. Eviction History via the platform Tableau Public. He bases the visualization on data gathered by the Eviction Lab at Princeton University — which is a valuable source of housing law and needs data.
Data on legal aid and legal needs from Legal Services Corporation
The leading national funder of civil legal aid, the Legal Services Corporation, has a public repository of data and data visualizations on Tableau. At this page, you can find their data sets and their visualizations about: the types of legal needs people have demographics of people their grantees serve what their grantees are doing with funds outcomes of the services, like … Read More
Maryland Judiciary Data Dashboard
This is a statewide gathering of court data from Maryland: Maryland Judiciary’s Annual Statistical Performance Measures is an interactive compilation of trial and appellate courts caseload and performance data. These pages include information about the work of the state’s courts and highlight the daily efforts of the Maryland Judiciary’s dedicated professionals to provide fair, efficient, and effective justice for all. … Read More
Datasets on Data.gov
Data.gov has a searchable set of data sets from all over the U.S., from federal and local jurisdictions. You can search based on topics, keywords, or locations. It has almost 200,000 datasets to search among.
Data.gov datasets on crime & criminal justice
Data.gov is a collection of data sets from the US federal government, that are meant for enterprising developers to draw from. The site’s section on Safety includes reports on crime statistics & criminal-justice related datasets. By searching the datasets for the topic ‘crime’, you can find data-sets on many different crime-related topics, including: campus security data reported incidents of crimes … Read More
TRAC Immigration Data Sets & Reports
TRAC Immigration provides data sets, tools & apps for all things immigration in the US. Its specific data sets & tools include the following. Deportation Proceedings (October 1992 through August 2014) Deportation Proceedings in Immigration Courts by Nationality, Geographic Location, Year and Type of Charge Deportation Outcomes (October 1992 through August 2014) Deportation Outcomes by Charge Completed Cases in Immigration … Read More
Correctional Data from Bureau of Justice Statistics
Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) – Total correctional population. The total correctional population consists of all offenders under the supervision of the adult correctional systems, which includes offenders supervised in the community under the authority of probation or parole agencies and those held in the custody of state or federal prisons or local jails. Several different data collections are used … Read More
Database of Patent Trial and Appeal Board Post-Grant Decisions
From law firm Fenwick & West: PTAB Database of Patent Trial and Appeal Board Post-Grant Decisions. Patent Trial and Appeal Board Database Decoding Post-Grant Decisions at the PTAB The America Invents Act (AIA) introduced several new proceedings to contest the validity of patents at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), including inter partes reviews (IPRs), post-grant reviews (PGRs), covered … Read More
America Decoded
America Decoded is a project from the OpenGov Foundation that provides usable access to city and state laws from around the country. America’s Laws Are the People’s Public Property The State Decoded software provides you with a people-friendly way to access your local, state, and federal legal code. Careful organization by article and section makes browsing a breeze. A site-wide … Read More
Civic Data Design Lab
Civic Data Design Lab is a project out of MIT’s Dept. of Urban Studies & Planning, that focuses on how data-based visuals and tools can be used to improve citizenship — and citizens’ relations with the government. From their site: The Civic Data Design Lab works with data to understand it for public good. We seek to develop alternative practices … Read More
TRAC: Data about Federal Law Enforcement
TRAC, or The Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, is a huge amount of data on federal enforcement of criminal law, immigration & other matters. This is a great source of raw data to draw into your projects, apps, or reports. TRAC describes itself as “a data gathering, data research and data distribution organization at Syracuse University.” It also has some visualizations … Read More
CourtListener Data Sets
From: CourtListener. Started as a part-time hobby in 2010, CourtListener is now a core project of the Free Law Project, a California Non-Profit corporation. The goal of the site is to provide powerful free legal tools for everybody while giving away all our data in bulk downloads. We collect legal opinions from court websites and from data donations, and are … Read More