Every federal pattern-or-practice civil rights investigation by the DOJ Civil Rights Division Special Litigation Section — 137 cases across 43 states covering police departments (13), sheriffs (6), jails (8), prisons (12), juvenile facilities (8), mental-health institutions (12), and other facilities. Each case has linked DOJ documents: CRIPA Notice Letters (Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act), Findings Letters, Complaints, Consent Decrees, Settlement Agreements. Statutory basis: CRIPA, 34 USC 12601 (formerly 42 USC 14141 — police misconduct pattern-or-practice), ADA Olmstead (mental health), Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA). Source: justice.gov/crt/special-litigation-section-cases-and-matters — HTML parsed via tls_client. The most consequential federal civil-rights accountability layer for police violence and institutional abuse.

Live API

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API endpoint: https://api.ai-analytics.org/api/v1/doj-cr/cases/recent
Dataset landing page: https://api.ai-analytics.org/datasets/doj-cr-cases
DataCatalog (JSON-LD): https://api.ai-analytics.org/.well-known/dataset.json
DCAT-US (data.gov-compatible): https://api.ai-analytics.org/data.json

Quick start

# Recent records (JSON)
curl 'https://api.ai-analytics.org/api/v1/doj-cr/cases/recent?limit=10'

# Browse on the web
open 'https://api.ai-analytics.org/datasets/doj-cr-cases'

MCP (Model Context Protocol)

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Source

Agency: US Department of Justice Civil Rights Division Special Litigation Section
Primary source: https://www.justice.gov/crt/special-litigation-section-cases-and-matters
License: CC0 1.0 Universal (derived data). Underlying federal works are US public domain under 5 USC 105 / 17 USC 105.
Update cadence: Per agency (most refresh daily via Cloudflare Cron Trigger)

Keywords

DOJ Civil Rights, Special Litigation, police misconduct, pattern or practice, CRIPA, consent decree, police accountability, jail conditions, mental health institutions, ADA Olmstead, Section 14141

Citation

@misc{ai_analytics_doj_cr_cases_2026,
  title  = {{name}},
  author = {AI Analytics},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://api.ai-analytics.org/datasets/doj-cr-cases},
  note   = {Derived from US Department of Justice Civil Rights Division Special Litigation Section. License: CC0 1.0.}
}

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DOJ Civil Rights Division pattern-or-practice cases (137 across 43 states)