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-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com/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' xType: 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. image: https://kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg 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. image: https://kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg 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. image: https://kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg 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. image: https://kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg 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. image: https://kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg 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: 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: Privacy Policy url: https://www.justice.gov/legalpolicies - type: Contact url: https://www.justice.gov/contact-us - type: GitHub Organization url: https://github.com/usdoj - type: JSON-LD 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