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
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
- 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: '2026-04-28'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
kind: government
position: Producer
access: Public
apis:
- aid: department-of-justice:doj-news-api
  name: DOJ News API
  description: The DOJ News API exposes more than 14,000 press releases, speeches, and blog entries from the Office of Public
    Affairs as a JSON web service. Endpoints under /api/v1/ provide list and detail views for each content type and support
    filtering by title, date, component, and topic, along with pagination and field selection.
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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: Developer
    url: https://www.justice.gov/developer
  - type: Open Government
    url: https://www.justice.gov/open/developer-resources
  - type: GitHub Client
    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: FOIA.gov Annual Report API
  description: The FOIA.gov developer resources expose annual FOIA report data as XML conforming to the FOIA Annual Report
    XML schema. Reports can be retrieved by agency abbreviation and year through a documented endpoint pattern.
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  humanURL: https://www.foia.gov/developer/
  baseURL: https://www.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/
  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.
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  humanURL: https://bjs.ojp.gov/national-crime-victimization-survey-ncvs-api
  baseURL: https://bjs.ojp.gov/api
  tags:
  - BJS
  - Crime
  - NCVS
  - Statistics
  - Victimization
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://bjs.ojp.gov/national-crime-victimization-survey-ncvs-api
  - type: NCVS Program
    url: https://bjs.ojp.gov/data-collection/ncvs
  - type: Featured
    url: https://bjs.ojp.gov/featured/national-crime-victimization-survey-ncvs-application-programming-interface-api
  - type: Data Tools
    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.
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  humanURL: https://bjs.ojp.gov/national-incident-based-reporting-system-nibrs-national-estimates-api
  baseURL: https://bjs.ojp.gov/api
  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: NIBRS Program
    url: https://bjs.ojp.gov/national-incident-based-reporting-system-nibrs
  - type: 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: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.
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  humanURL: https://www.justice.gov/data
  baseURL: https://catalog.data.gov/api/3
  tags:
  - CKAN
  - Datasets
  - Open Data
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.justice.gov/data
  - type: Open Government
    url: https://www.justice.gov/open
  - type: Data.gov DOJ
    url: https://catalog.data.gov/organization/doj-gov
  - type: CKAN Reference
    url: https://docs.ckan.org/en/2.8/api/
  contact:
  - FN: DOJ Open Data
    url: https://www.justice.gov/open
common:
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/usdoj
- type: Website
  url: https://www.justice.gov
- type: Open Government
  url: https://www.justice.gov/open
- type: Developer
  url: https://www.justice.gov/developer
- type: News
  url: https://www.justice.gov/news
- type: FOIA
  url: https://www.foia.gov
- type: Office of Information Policy
  url: https://www.justice.gov/oip
- type: Bureau of Justice Statistics
  url: https://bjs.ojp.gov
- type: Office of Justice Programs
  url: https://www.ojp.gov
- type: FBI
  url: https://www.fbi.gov
- type: DEA
  url: https://www.dea.gov
- type: ATF
  url: https://www.atf.gov
- type: U.S. Marshals
  url: https://www.usmarshals.gov
- type: Bureau of Prisons
  url: https://www.bop.gov
- type: Data.gov DOJ Catalog
  url: https://catalog.data.gov/organization/doj-gov
- 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
- type: Capabilities
  url: capabilities/department-of-justice-capabilities.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com