California Attorney General Discovery API

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: 'California DOJ OpenJustice Open Data Portal JSON: Discovery…'
  version: '1.0'
  summary: Anonymous JSON:API 1.0 over the California Department of Justice OpenJustice open-data portal — the Attorney General's criminal-justice datasets (Arrests, Crimes & Clearances, Homicide, Hate Crime, Use of Force, RIPA stop data, deaths in custody and 19 more), their CSV/XLSX distributions, CJSC publications and data stories.
  description: The California Attorney General heads the California Department of Justice, whose Criminal Justice Statistics Center runs the OpenJustice initiative (https://openjustice.doj.ca.gov).
  contact:
    name: California Department of Justice — Criminal Justice Statistics Center
    email: datarequests@doj.ca.gov
    url: https://oag.ca.gov/research-services/request-process
  termsOfService: https://oag.ca.gov/conditions
  license:
    name: California DOJ conditions of use (public government data; no licence text is attached to the files)
    url: https://oag.ca.gov/conditions
  x-derived-by: API Evangelist enrichment pipeline
  x-derived-from: https://data-openjustice.doj.ca.gov/jsonapi
  x-derived-on: '2026-09-17'
  x-publisher-provided: false
servers:
- url: https://data-openjustice.doj.ca.gov/jsonapi
  description: Production JSON:API entry point (Drupal 9, behind an F5 load balancer that sets an `oag.ca.gov` persistence cookie). Public, anonymous reads.
security: []
tags:
- name: Discovery
  description: The JSON:API index.
paths:
  /:
    get:
      operationId: getResourceIndex
      summary: JSON:API resource-type index
      tags:
      - Discovery
      description: 'The JSON:API entry point. Returns a `links` map of every advertised resource type in `entity--bundle` form. Probed 2026-09-17: HTTP 200, application/vnd.api+json, 7,905 bytes, 70 resource-type link relations. Saved verbatim at discovery/california-attorney-general-openjustice-jsonapi-index.json.'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Resource-type index document
          content:
            application/vnd.api+json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/IndexDocument'
      x-probe:
        url: https://data-openjustice.doj.ca.gov/jsonapi
        http_status: 200
        content_type: application/vnd.api+json
        fetched: '2026-09-17'
components:
  schemas:
    IndexDocument:
      type: object
      properties:
        jsonapi:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/JsonApiObject'
        data:
          type: array
          items: {}
          description: Empty array on the index.
        links:
          type: object
          description: One entry per resource type, keyed `entity--bundle`, plus `self`.
          additionalProperties:
            type: object
            properties:
              href:
                type: string
                format: uri
    JsonApiObject:
      type: object
      properties:
        version:
          type: string
          const: '1.0'
        meta:
          type: object
x-provenance:
  generated: '2026-09-17'
  method: probed
  source: https://data-openjustice.doj.ca.gov/jsonapi
  author: API Evangelist
  discovery: https://openjustice.doj.ca.gov/static/js/app.27bd7a2568ccfb17905a.js (axios baseURL)
x-probe:
  fetched: '2026-09-17'
  index:
    url: https://data-openjustice.doj.ca.gov/jsonapi
    http_status: 200
    content_type: application/vnd.api+json
    resource_types_advertised: 70
  described: 32
  page_limit_cap: 50
  writes:
    anonymous_create_granted:
    - node--signup
    - node--suggestion
    - node--bug
    requires_credentials:
    - method: POST
      path: /node/dataset
      status: 401
    - method: PATCH
      path: /node/stats/{id}
      status: 401
    - method: DELETE
      path: /node/dataset/{id}
      status: 401
  excluded:
    omitted_insufficient_authorization:
    - action--action
    - base_field_override--base_field_override
    - block_content_type--block_content_type
    - corresponding_reference--corresponding_reference
    - editor--editor
    - embed_button--embed_button
    - entity_form_display--entity_form_display
    - entity_form_mode--entity_form_mode
    - entity_view_display--entity_view_display
    - entity_view_mode--entity_view_mode
    - field_config--field_config
    - field_storage_config--field_storage_config
    - filter_format--filter_format
    - image_style--image_style
    - node--bug
    - node--signup
    - node--suggestion
    - path_alias--path_alias
    - pathauto_pattern--pathauto_pattern
    - rdf_mapping--rdf_mapping
    - rest_resource_config--rest_resource_config
    - shortcut--default
    - shortcut_set--shortcut_set
    - taxonomy_vocabulary--taxonomy_vocabulary
    - tour--tour
    - user_role--user_role
    - view--view
    - webform--webform
    - webform_options--webform_options
    - workflow--workflow
    empty_collection:
    - block_content--basic
    - taxonomy_menu--taxonomy_menu
    - taxonomy_term--tags
    - webform_submission--contact
    post_only_405_on_get:
    - contact_message--feedback
    - contact_message--personal
    excluded_by_api_evangelist_on_privacy_grounds:
    - user--user (anonymous GET returns 22 Drupal account display names)
    - webform_submission--kinetic_energy_ab48_2022 (anonymous GET returns form-submission metadata including remote_addr and token fields)