Department of Justice

aid: department-of-justice
name: Department of Justice
description: The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is the federal executive department responsible for enforcing the law and
  defending the interests of the United States. DOJ exposes a portfolio of public APIs and data feeds including the DOJ News
  API for press releases, speeches, and blog entries from the Office of Public Affairs, the FOIA.gov developer APIs, the Bureau
  of Justice Statistics NCVS and NIBRS APIs, and the DOJ Open Data Catalog.
type: Index
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  confidence: low
  source:
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  generated: '2026-08-28'
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  public: false
  label: Freemium
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  source:
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tags:
- Bureau of Justice Statistics
- Crime
- Federal-Government
- FOIA
- Justice
- News
- Open Data
- Press Releases
- Statistics
tags_raw:
- Bureau of Justice Statistics
- Crime
- Federal Government
- FOIA
- Justice
- News
- Open Data
- Press Releases
- Statistics
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/department-of-justice/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2024-12-03'
modified: '2026-09-06'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
kind: government
position: Producing
access: Public
apis:
- aid: department-of-justice:doj-news-api
  name: DOJ News API
  description: The DOJ News API exposes press releases and blog entries from the Office of Public Affairs as a JSON web service.
    The api_v1 reference documents four resources — list and detail views for press_releases and blog_entries — with field
    selection, zero-based paging (default 20, maximum 50), sorting, and bracketed filter parameters such as parameters[title]
    and parameters[date] in Unix epoch seconds. The DOJ Developer Resources page also describes speeches, but no speeches
    resource is listed in the reference and GET /api/v1/speeches.json returned 404 when probed on 2026-09-06.
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  humanURL: https://www.justice.gov/developer/api-documentation/api_v1
  baseURL: https://www.justice.gov/api/v1
  tags:
  - Blog
  - News
  - Office of Public Affairs
  - Press Releases
  - Speeches
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.justice.gov/developer/api-documentation/api_v1
  - type: DeveloperPortal
    url: https://www.justice.gov/developer
  - type: X-OpenGovernment
    url: https://www.justice.gov/open/developer-resources
  - type: X-GitHubClient
    url: https://github.com/rOpenGov/usdoj
  contact:
  - FN: DOJ Office of Public Affairs
    url: https://www.justice.gov/contact-us
- aid: department-of-justice:foia-annual-report-api
  name: National FOIA Portal API
  description: The National FOIA Portal publishes a JSON:API web service on api.foia.gov covering agency components, the agency
    taxonomy, annual and quarterly FOIA report data, and Chief FOIA Officers Council meetings, committees, councils and pages.
    Its 24 read operations are described by a first-party Swagger 2.0 contract maintained in the usdoj GitHub organization
    and rendered at foia.gov/swagger.html. The same host also serves each agency's annual FOIA report as XML conforming to
    the FOIA Annual Report XML schema, a NIEM IEPD. Requests carry a free api.data.gov key in an X-API-Key header.
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://www.foia.gov/developer/
  baseURL: https://api.foia.gov/api
  tags:
  - Annual Report
  - FOIA
  - XML
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.foia.gov/developer/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://www.foia.gov/developer/agency-api/
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/department-of-justice-foia-api-swagger.json
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/department-of-justice-foia-api-overlay.yaml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://www.foia.gov/swagger.html
  - type: SignUp
    url: https://www.foia.gov/developer/#api-key-signup
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/usdoj/foia.gov/blob/develop/swagger.json
  contact:
  - FN: Office of Information Policy
    url: https://www.justice.gov/oip
- aid: department-of-justice:bjs-ncvs-api
  name: BJS National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) API
  description: The Bureau of Justice Statistics NCVS API provides REST access to the National Crime Victimization Survey datasets.
    Endpoints expose Personal Victimization, Personal Population, Household Victimization, and Household Population data in
    JSON and CSV. The API uses a path, resource, and query parameter structure with a default page size of 1,000 records.
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://bjs.ojp.gov/national-crime-victimization-survey-ncvs-api
  baseURL: https://api.ojp.gov/bjsdataset/v1
  tags:
  - BJS
  - Crime
  - NCVS
  - Statistics
  - Victimization
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://bjs.ojp.gov/national-crime-victimization-survey-ncvs-api
  - type: X-NCVSProgram
    url: https://bjs.ojp.gov/data-collection/ncvs
  - type: X-Featured
    url: https://bjs.ojp.gov/featured/national-crime-victimization-survey-ncvs-application-programming-interface-api
  - type: X-DataTools
    url: https://bjs.ojp.gov/data/data-analysis-tools
  contact:
  - FN: Bureau of Justice Statistics
    url: https://bjs.ojp.gov/about-bjs-website
- aid: department-of-justice:bjs-nibrs-api
  name: BJS NIBRS National Estimates API
  description: The Bureau of Justice Statistics NIBRS National Estimates API provides REST access to the National Incident-Based
    Reporting System estimates including victimization counts and rates. Endpoints return JSON or CSV and follow a path, resource,
    query parameter structure with a default page size of 1,000 records.
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://bjs.ojp.gov/national-incident-based-reporting-system-nibrs-national-estimates-api
  baseURL: https://api.ojp.gov/bjsdataset/v1
  tags:
  - BJS
  - Crime
  - National Estimates
  - NIBRS
  - Statistics
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://bjs.ojp.gov/national-incident-based-reporting-system-nibrs-national-estimates-api
  - type: X-NIBRSProgram
    url: https://bjs.ojp.gov/national-incident-based-reporting-system-nibrs
  - type: X-Codebook
    url: https://bjs.ojp.gov/document/nibrs-codebook-supplementary-documentation.pdf
  contact:
  - FN: Bureau of Justice Statistics
    url: https://bjs.ojp.gov/about-bjs-website
- aid: department-of-justice:fara-efile-api
  name: FARA e-File Registrant API
  description: 'The Foreign Agents Registration Act e-File system exposes registrant data filed under FARA as JSON. The DOJ
    Developer Resources page describes the FARA.gov API as providing public access to registrations, short-form filings for
    individual foreign agents, and foreign principals. Only the registrant feeds were reachable when probed on 2026-09-06:
    /api/v1/Registrants/json/Active and /api/v1/Registrants/json/Terminated both returned 200 without a key, while the ORDS
    API landing page linked from the DOJ developer page returned 500. There is no published reference documentation for these
    endpoints.'
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://www.justice.gov/developer
  baseURL: https://efile.fara.gov/api/v1
  tags:
  - FARA
  - Foreign Agents
  - National Security Division
  - Registrants
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.justice.gov/developer
  - type: X-FARAProgram
    url: https://www.justice.gov/nsd-fara
  - type: X-BrowseFilings
    url: https://efile.fara.gov/ords/fara/f?p=1381:1
  contact:
  - FN: DOJ National Security Division, FARA Unit
    url: https://www.justice.gov/nsd-fara
- aid: department-of-justice:doj-open-data-catalog
  name: DOJ Open Data Catalog
  description: DOJ publishes datasets through the Open Government program and the Department's Data Inventory. Datasets are
    also surfaced on Data.gov under the doj-gov organization and are accessible via the CKAN-compatible Data.gov API.
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://www.justice.gov/data
  baseURL: https://catalog.data.gov/api
  tags:
  - CKAN
  - Datasets
  - Open Data
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.justice.gov/data
  - type: X-OpenGovernment
    url: https://www.justice.gov/open
  - type: X-DataCatalog
    url: https://www.justice.gov/data.json
  - type: X-DataGovCatalogAPI
    url: https://catalog.data.gov/openapi.json
  contact:
  - FN: DOJ Open Data
    url: https://www.justice.gov/open
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  url: authentication/department-of-justice-authentication.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/department-of-justice-domain-security.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/usdoj
- type: Website
  url: https://www.justice.gov
- type: X-OpenGovernment
  url: https://www.justice.gov/open
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://www.justice.gov/developer
- type: Newsroom
  url: https://www.justice.gov/news
- type: X-FOIA
  url: https://www.foia.gov
- type: X-OfficeOfInformationPolicy
  url: https://www.justice.gov/oip
- type: X-BureauOfJusticeStatistics
  url: https://bjs.ojp.gov
- type: X-OfficeOfJusticePrograms
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- type: X-FBI
  url: https://www.fbi.gov
- type: X-DEA
  url: https://www.dea.gov
- type: X-ATF
  url: https://www.atf.gov
- type: X-USMarshals
  url: https://www.usmarshals.gov
- type: X-BureauOfPrisons
  url: https://www.bop.gov
- type: X-DataCatalog
  url: https://www.justice.gov/data.json
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.justice.gov/legalpolicies
- type: Contact
  url: https://www.justice.gov/contact-us
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/usdoj
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/department-of-justice-context.jsonld
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/department-of-justice-vocabulary.yml
- url: https://www.justice.gov/rss.xml
  type: Blog
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.justice.gov/developer/api-documentation/api_v1
- type: APIReference
  url: https://www.foia.gov/swagger.html
- type: Support
  url: https://www.justice.gov/contact-us
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.justice.gov/legalpolicies
- type: Packages
  url: packages/department-of-justice-packages.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/department-of-justice-llms.txt
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  url: mcp/department-of-justice-mcp.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/department-of-justice-conformance.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/department-of-justice-problem-types.yml
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  url: lifecycle/department-of-justice-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/department-of-justice-conventions.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/department-of-justice-data-model.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/department-of-justice-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/department-of-justice-rate-limits.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/department-of-justice-finops.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
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  date: '2026-09-06'
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