# Department of Justice

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/department-of-justice/  
**Website:** https://www.justice.gov  
**APIs profiled:** 5

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.

## Kin Score — 19.0 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 19.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 7.0 |
| Governance | 15.2 |
| Contract Governance | 15.2 |
| Operational Transparency | 10.5 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 2.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 26.3 |
| Access Clarity | 26.3 |

Regulatory layer — **Government & Public Sector**: 27.8 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 3.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (5)

- **DOJ News API** — 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 li...
- **FOIA.gov Annual Report API** — 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 ...
- **BJS National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) API** — The Bureau of Justice Statistics NCVS API provides REST access to the National Crime Victimization Survey datasets. Endpoints expose Personal Victimization, Personal Population,...
- **BJS NIBRS National Estimates API** — The Bureau of Justice Statistics NIBRS National Estimates API provides REST access to the National Incident-Based Reporting System estimates including victimization counts and r...
- **DOJ Open Data Catalog** — 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 acc...

## Security (1)

- **Department Of Justice Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Department Of Justice Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Bureau of Justice Statistics, Crime, Federal-Government, FOIA, Justice, News, Open Data, Press Releases, Statistics

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/department-of-justice/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.