California Attorney General

The California Attorney General is the chief law officer of the State of California and heads the California Department of Justice (DOJ). The office runs OpenJustice, the DOJ Criminal Justice Statistics Center's open-data initiative, whose Open Data Portal publishes 26 criminal-justice datasets (Arrests, Crimes and Clearances, Homicide, Hate Crime, Use of Force, RIPA stop data, deaths in custody and more) as CSV/XLSX/ZIP files with context PDFs. The DOJ publishes no developer portal, API documentation or OpenAPI, but the OpenJustice single-page app reads its content from a live, anonymous, standards-conformant JSON:API 1.0 surface at https://data-openjustice.doj.ca.gov/jsonapi (Drupal 9) carrying every dataset, its distributions, the CJSC publications and the data stories — verified here. The California Data Broker Registry that first brought this office into the catalog is now maintained by the California Privacy Protection Agency, per the AG's own page, and is attributed there.

California Attorney General publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network: OpenJustice Open Data Portal JSON:API. Tagged areas include State-Government, California, Criminal Justice, Open Data, and Law Enforcement.

California Attorney General’s developer surface includes documentation, support, engineering blog, and 11 more developer resources.

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36.8/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 28/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-18 · rubric v0.22.0
AccessFree⚡ Free to try
1 APIs
State-GovernmentCaliforniaCriminal JusticeOpen DataLaw EnforcementCrime StatisticsGovernment DataJSON:APIPublic RecordsAttorney General

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scored 2026-09-18 · rubric v0.22.0
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Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
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MCP Server 0 / 12
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Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8
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A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
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OpenJustice Open Data Portal JSON:API

The live JSON:API 1.0 surface behind the Attorney General's OpenJustice Open Data Portal, served anonymously by Drupal 9 at https://data-openjustice.doj.ca.gov/jsonapi. It carri...

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California Attorney General Plans Pricing

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California Attorney General Rate Limits

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California Attorney General Datasets Include Example

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California Attorney General Datasets Sparse Fieldset Example

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California Attorney General Error 400 Example

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California Attorney General Error 401 Write Example

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California Attorney General Error 404 Example

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California Attorney General Jsonapi Index Example

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California Attorney General Stats Filter Example

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California Attorney General Authentication

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California Attorney General Domain Security

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California Attorney General Agentic Access

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68 operations · 3 acting

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Datasets
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Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: california-attorney-general
name: California Attorney General
description: The California Attorney General is the chief law officer of the State of California and heads the California
  Department of Justice (DOJ). The office runs OpenJustice, the DOJ Criminal Justice Statistics Center's open-data initiative,
  whose Open Data Portal publishes 26 criminal-justice datasets (Arrests, Crimes and Clearances, Homicide, Hate Crime, Use
  of Force, RIPA stop data, deaths in custody and more) as CSV/XLSX/ZIP files with context PDFs. The DOJ publishes no developer
  portal, API documentation or OpenAPI, but the OpenJustice single-page app reads its content from a live, anonymous, standards-conformant
  JSON:API 1.0 surface at https://data-openjustice.doj.ca.gov/jsonapi (Drupal 9) carrying every dataset, its distributions,
  the CJSC publications and the data stories — verified here. The California Data Broker Registry that first brought this
  office into the catalog is now maintained by the California Privacy Protection Agency, per the AG's own page, and is attributed
  there.
kind: contract
deliveryModel:
  model: public-api
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: true
  label: Free public government API, anonymous reads
  confidence: high
  source:
  - https://data-openjustice.doj.ca.gov/jsonapi
  - https://openjustice.doj.ca.gov/static/js/app.27bd7a2568ccfb17905a.js
  generated: '2026-09-17'
  method: probed
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: none
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: true
  label: Free, no registration, anonymous access
  confidence: high
  source:
  - https://data-openjustice.doj.ca.gov/jsonapi
  generated: '2026-09-17'
  method: probed
position: Producing
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/california-attorney-general/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:operator-attribution
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: full-pipeline enrichment 2026-09-17 (was harvest stub)
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-09-17'
modified: '2026-09-17'
tags:
- State-Government
- California
- Criminal Justice
- Open Data
- Law Enforcement
- Crime Statistics
- Government Data
- JSON:API
- Public Records
- Attorney General
tags_raw:
- State Government
- California
- Criminal Justice
- Open Data
- Law Enforcement
- Crime Statistics
- Government Data
- JSON API
- Public Records
- Attorney General
apis:
- aid: california-attorney-general:openjustice-open-data-portal-jsonapi
  name: OpenJustice Open Data Portal JSON:API
  description: The live JSON:API 1.0 surface behind the Attorney General's OpenJustice Open Data Portal, served anonymously
    by Drupal 9 at https://data-openjustice.doj.ca.gov/jsonapi. It carries the 26 published criminal-justice datasets with
    their 148 CSV/XLSX/ZIP/PDF distributions (direct downloads under /sites/default/files/), the six Exploration stats pages,
    the CJSC statistical publications and their per-year report PDFs, the OpenJustice data stories and the site taxonomies.
    Reads are anonymous with JSON:API filtering, sorting, sparse fieldsets, relationship includes and 50-per-page offset pagination;
    anonymous create is granted only on the three feedback routes the site footer uses (signup, suggestion, bug) and every
    other write returns 401. Not published or documented by the DOJ — found through the axios baseURL in the OpenJustice app
    bundle and described from live probes on 2026-09-17.
  humanURL: https://openjustice.doj.ca.gov/data
  baseURL: https://data-openjustice.doj.ca.gov/jsonapi
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  tags:
  - Criminal Justice
  - Open Data
  - Datasets
  - Crime Statistics
  - JSON:API
  - Law Enforcement
  tags_raw:
  - Criminal Justice
  - Open Data
  - Datasets
  - Crime Statistics
  - JSON API
  - Law Enforcement
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/california-attorney-general-openjustice-jsonapi-openapi.yml
  - type: APIDiscovery
    url: discovery/california-attorney-general-openjustice-jsonapi-index.json
  - type: Datasets
    url: datasets/california-attorney-general-datasets.yml
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/_index.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://openjustice.doj.ca.gov/data
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.drupal.org/docs/core-modules-and-themes/core-modules/jsonapi-module/api-overview
  - type: Website
    url: https://openjustice.doj.ca.gov/
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/california-attorney-general-authentication.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/california-attorney-general-conventions.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/california-attorney-general-problem-types.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/california-attorney-general-conformance.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/california-attorney-general-lifecycle.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/california-attorney-general-data-model.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/california-attorney-general-rate-limits.yml
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/california-attorney-general-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/california-attorney-general-openjustice-jsonapi-overlay.yaml
  - type: X-MCPServerCandidate
    url: mcp/california-attorney-general-mcp.yml
  - type: ToolCrosswalk
    url: mcp/california-attorney-general-tool-crosswalk.yml
  - type: AgentSkill
    url: skills/_index.yml
  - type: LLMsTxt
    url: llms/california-attorney-general-llms.txt
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/california-attorney-general-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/california-attorney-general-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://oag.ca.gov/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://openjustice.doj.ca.gov/data
- type: Support
  url: https://oag.ca.gov/research-services/request-process
- type: Blog
  url: https://oag.ca.gov/media/news
- type: BlogRSS
  url: https://oag.ca.gov/rss.xml
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://oag.ca.gov/conditions
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://oag.ca.gov/privacy-policy
- type: X-WellKnownProbe
  url: well-known/california-attorney-general-well-known.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/california-attorney-general-packages.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/california-attorney-general-llms.txt
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: Datasets
  url: datasets/california-attorney-general-datasets.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-09-17'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 29
  pass: local-v3

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