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OIP Summaries and Assessments of Agency Chief FOIA Officer Reports

OIP’s assessment of agencies’ Chief FOIA Officer (CFO) Reports provides a broad overview of agency efforts in several key areas of FOIA administration.  The assessment covers those agencies that received more than 50 requests and distinguishes between high and medium volume agencies, using a five-step scoring system to denote agency success for each milestone. 

Tags: cfo-report-assessment
Organization: Department of Justice
National Instant Criminal Background Check System (FBI)

The National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) is a national system that provides the timely and accurate determination of a person's eligibility to possess firearms and/or explosives in accordance with the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention

Tags: denied-firearm-application, eligibility-check, explosives-background-check, explosives-license, explosives-permit, federal-fi, firearm-application-overturned-denial, firearm-license, firearm-transfer, firearms-background-check, flagged-firearm-application
Organization: Department of Justice
Law Enforcement Online

Law Enforcement Online (LEO) is an information sharing network that provides secure communications, distance learning, broad and immediate dissemination of information, and related services to the local, state, and Federal law enforcement, criminal justic

Tags: access, alerts, collaboration, crisis-management, distance-learning, documents, education, email-services, information-sharing, multimedia-library, national-alert-system, res, special-interest-group-sig-content, studies, training, virtual-command-center
Organization: Department of Justice
EOIR Case Data

In 2008, EOIR began receiving requests from a university-affiliated data clearinghouse for large, raw data files from the agency’s case file electronic database. As EOIR has received at least three FOIA requests for this information, the FOIA Improvement Act of 2016 requires the agency to make the records available for public inspection in an electronic format. That data is updated monthly and posted below.

Tags: case-data, foia
Organization: Department of Justice
DEA Domestic Office's Area of Responsibility (AOR) Boundaries

This dataset contains the boundaries of each area of responsibility (AOR). An AOR is the inventory of counties/territories over which each domestic DEA office has primary enforcement responsibility. An AOR is assigned to each domestic DEA office larger than a post of duty (POD). The population of each AOR and its DEA field division is also included in this dataset.

Tags: aor, area-of-responsibility, boundaries
Organization: Department of Justice
DEA Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) Drugs Analyzed Public Use File

Data on received drugs analyzed in DEA Office of Forensic Sciences laboratories. Data is reported by drug type, by state, and by month. 

The DEA Office of Forensic Sciences oversees decentralized accredited laboratories, which analyze evidence obtained by DEA law enforcement to support investigations. The laboratories use a laboratory information management system (LIMS) to receive, process, analyze and store the data. Before 2013, DEA’s LIMS system was referred to as the System to Retrieve Information on Drug Evidence (STRIDE).

Tags: drugs, forensics, laboratory
Organization: Department of Justice
National Forensic Laboratory Information System (NFLIS) Public Data Sets

NFLIS data provides the community with midyear and annual reports highlighting trends in seized drug data submitted to and analyzed in laboratories. The tables report results by frequently reported substances, by geography, and by year. The tables are publicly posted to provide easy access to the most frequently requested NFLIS data. 

NFLIS began in September 1997 as a single data collection effort of drug chemistry analysis results from by local, State, and Federal forensic laboratories (now called NFLIS-Drug). These laboratories analyze substances secured in law enforcement operations across the country. NFLIS-Drug includes voluntary participation from 50 State systems and 111 local or municipal laboratories/laboratory systems. The NFLIS-Drug Snapshots highlight new and emerging drugs, and the public data tables show drug reports by state from 2007 through present. 

The NFLIS program has since expanded the scope of data collection to include public and private toxicology laboratory data on toxicological findings from antemortem and postmortem drug testing (NFLIS-Tox) and medical examiner and coroner office data regarding deaths in which drugs were identified (NFLIS-MEC). 

Tags: drugs, forensics, laboratory
Organization: Department of Justice
FOIA Request Logs

A record of all Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests received and processed by the Civil Division. Includes details such as the subject of the request, the date received, and the disposition or status of the request. These logs help ensure accountability and allow the public to track the Civil Division's responsiveness to FOIA obligations.

Tags: accountability, disclosure, foia, information-requests, public-records, transparency
Organization: Department of Justice
RECA Claims Summary Report

The report titled Radiation Exposure Compensation Program Summary Report, Fiscal Year 1992 to 2010 includes two tables. The first table is a count of receipts (new claim filing) and reflects the number of receipts since FY 1992. The second table reflects the number of claims awarded and denied, with award amounts for each fiscal year since 1992.

Tags: awarded, awards, civil, civil-division, claims, department-of-justice, doj, log, outreach, radiation-exposure-compensation-program, reca
Organization: Department of Justice
RECA Awards by Place of Residence (State/Country) as of [date]

The report titled RECA Awards by Place of Residence (State/Country) as of [current date], reflects the number of claims filed, pending, denied, approved, and compensation awarded, based on the state and in certain cases, the country of the individual claimant. It is important to note that the data (state and country) reflects the residency of the claimant receiving the compensation awards; it does not reflect the location where the individual was exposed. For example, many claimants were exposed to radiation while present in the Southwestern United States. However, the report reflects that compensation awards were sent to residents of many states and countries. Moreover, in cases involving multiple beneficiaries, the data reflects the residency of the lead beneficiary, i.e., the individual who completed the claim form.

Tags: awarded, awards, civil, civil-division, claims, department-of-justice, doj, log, outreach, radiation-exposure-compensation-program, reca
Organization: Department of Justice
Survey of State Attorneys General, United States, 2014

The 2014 Survey of State Attorneys General (SAG) collected information on jurisdiction, sources and circumstances of case referrals, and the participation of attorneys general offices in federal or state white-collar crime task forces in 2014. White-collar crime was defined by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) as: "any violation of law committed through non-violent means, involving lies, omissions, deceit, misrepresentation, or violation of a position of trust, by an individual or organization for personal or organizational benefit." SAG sought to analyze how attorneys general offices as an organization in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories respond to white-collar offenses in their jurisdiction.
BJS asked respondents to focus on the following criminal and civil offenses: bank fraud, consumer fraud, insurance fraud, medical fraud, securities fraud, tax fraud, environmental offenses, false claims and statements, illegal payments to governmental officials (giving or receiving), unfair trade practices, and workplace-related offenses (e.g., unsafe working conditions). Variables included whether or not offices handled criminal or civil cases in the above categories, estimated number of cases in each category, and what types of criminal or civil sanctions were imposed on white-collar offenders. Researchers also assessed collaboration with partners outside of state attorneys offices, whether cases were referred for federal or local prosecution, and what circumstances lead to referring cases to state regulatory agencies. The extent to which state attorneys offices maintain white-collar crime data was also recorded.

Tags: attorneys-general, bribery, case-management, civil-law, criminal-law, environmental-laws, fraud, trade, white-collar-crime, workplaces
Organization: Department of Justice
Compendium of State Privacy and Security Legislation, United States, 2002-2015

The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) Compendium of State Privacy and Security Legislation database consists of state laws, executive orders, and administrative regulations relating to the privacy and security of criminal history record information (CHRI). The Compendium database documents how the states and territories regulate the disclosure and security of CHRI. SEARCH (the National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics) completed the previous version of the Compendium database for BJS in 2002. During 2014 and 2015, the Federal Research Division (FRD) of the Library of Congress updated the Compendium database for BJS.

Tags: criminal-histories, law, legislation, privacy, regulation, security
Organization: Department of Justice
National Survey of Tribal Court Systems, 2014

The National Survey of Tribal Court Systems (NSTCS) is the first complete enumeration of tribal court systems operating in the United States and gathers administrative and operational information from tribal court systems, prosecutors' offices, and indigent defense providers operating in the United States. The NSTCS helps fulfill BJS's legislative mandate under the Tribal Law and Order Act of 2010 (TLOA; P.L. 111-211, 124 Stat. 2258 § 251(b)) to establish and implement a tribal crime data collection system. Data for the NSTCS were collected by Kauffman & Associates, Inc., an American Indian- and woman-owned management consulting firm, in collaboration with the Tribal Law and Policy Institute.
The National Survey of Tribal Court Systems (NSTCS) consists of three surveys specific to tribal court systems in the lower 48 states, Alaska Native villages, and the Code of Federal Regulations Courts (CFR Courts) operated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). Due to data collection challenges and the limited number of Alaska Native villages and CFR Courts that participated in this collection, the Tribal Courts in United States, 2014, report, data file and documentation include information only on tribal court systems in the lower 48 states.
Data for the 2014 NSTCS were collected through mail, email, and telephone nonresponse follow-up. Data on the number and type of tribal court systems were obtained from all eligible federally recognized tribes. The final universe of eligible respondents in the lower 48 states included 234 tribal court systems, of which 196 (83.8%) participated in the survey.

Tags: diversion-programs, probation, prosecution, public-defenders, tribal-court, victim-services
Organization: Department of Justice
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Enforcement Activities

This collection of documents includes Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Briefs, Complaints, Consent Decrees, Settlement Agreements,  and Letters of Findings

Tags: ada-regulations, ada-settlement-agreements, americans-with-disabilities, civil-rights-division, department-of-justice, doj, title-i, title-ii, title-iii
Organization: Department of Justice
Census of Law Enforcement Training Academies, 2018

In 2018, there were 681 state and local law enforcement training academies that provided basic training instruction to 59,511 recruits. As part of the 2018 Census of Law Enforcement Training Academies (CLETA), respondents provided general information about the academies' facilities, resources, programs, and staff.  The core curricula subject areas and hours dedicated to each topic, as well as training offered in some special topics, were also included. The collection included information about recruit demographics, completion, and reasons for non-completion of basic training. BJS administered previous versions of the CLETA in 2002, 2006, and 2013.

Tags: census-data, law-enforcement, law-enforcement-agencies, police-departments, police-officers, police-recruits, police-training
Organization: Department of Justice
National Survey of Victim Service Providers, [United States], 2019

The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) entered into a cooperative agreement with Westat to design and conduct the National Survey of Victim Service Providers (NSVSP). The NSVSP is jointly funded by the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) and BJS. It is part of BJS's Victim Services Statistical Research Program that aims to provide comprehensive information about what services are being provided to victims, who is being served, and what gaps in service delivery may exist. The NSVSP provides a critical opportunity to address the existing knowledge gaps and enhance the victim services field to better serve the needs of crime victims. It collected detailed information on the number of victims served by type of crime, victim characteristics, services provided, criminal justice and community relationships, service gaps, and VSP staff size, turnover, and characteristics.

Tags: abuse, crime, victim-services, victims
Organization: Department of Justice
Los Angeles Homicides, 1830-2003

There has been little research on United States homicide
 rates from a long-term perspective, primarily because there has been
 no consistent data series on a particular place preceding the Uniform
 Crime Reports (UCR), which began its first full year in 1931. To fill
 this research gap, this project created a data series that spans two
 centuries on homicides per capita for the city of Los Angeles. The
 goal was to create a site-specific, individual-based data series that
 could be used to examine major social shifts related to homicide, such
 as mass immigration, urban growth, war, demographic changes, and
 changes in laws. The basic approach to the data collection was to
 obtain the best possible estimate of annual counts and the most
 complete information on individual homicides. Data were derived from
 multiple sources, including Los Angeles court records, as well as
 annual reports of the coroner and daily newspapers. Part 1 (Annual
 Homicides and Related Data) variables include Los Angeles County
 annual counts of homicides, counts of female victims, method of
 killing such as drowning, suffocating, or strangling, and the homicide
 rate. Part 2 (Individual Homicide Data) variables include the date and
 place of the murder, the age, sex, race, and place of birth of the
offender and victim, type of weapon used, and source of data.

Tags: crime-rates, crime-statistics, historical-data, homicide, murder, offenders, victims, weapons
Organization: Department of Justice
New York Police Department (NYPD) Stop, Question, and Frisk Database, 2006

These data were originally collected by New York Police Department officers and record information gathered as a result of stop question and frisk (SQF) encounters during 2006. These data were used in a study carried out, under contract to the New York City Police Foundation, by the Rand Corporation's Center on Quality Policing. The release of the study, "Analysis of Racial Disparities in the New York Police Department's Stop, Question, and Frisk Practices" (Rand Document TR-534-NYCPF, 2007) generated interest in making the data available for secondary analysis. This data collection contains information on the officer's reasons for initiating a stop, whether the stop led to a summons or arrest, demographic information for the person stopped, and the suspected criminal behavior.

Tags: police, police-citizen-interactions, search-and-seizure
Organization: Department of Justice
Uniform Crime Reports [United States], 1930-1959

This collection contains electronic versions of the Uniform
 Crime Reports publications for the early years of the Uniform Crime
 Reporting Program in the United States. The reports, which were
 published monthly from 1930 to 1931, quarterly from 1932 to 1940, and
 annually from 1941 to 1959, consist of tables showing the number of
 offenses known to the police as reported to the Federal Bureau of
 Investigation by contributing police departments. The term "offenses
 known to the police" includes those crimes designated as Part I
 classes of the Uniform Classification code occurring within the police
 jurisdiction, whether they became known to the police through reports
 of police officers, citizens, prosecuting or court officials, or
 otherwise. They were confined to the following group of seven classes
 of grave offenses, historically those offenses most often and most
 completely reported to the police: felonious homicide, including
 murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, and manslaughter by negligence,
 rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary -- breaking and entering,
 and larceny -- theft (including thefts $50 and over, and thefts under
 $50, and auto theft). The figures also included the number of
 attempted crimes in the designated classes excepting attempted murders
 classed as aggravated assaults. In other words, an attempted burglary
 or robbery, for example, was reported in the same manner as if the
 crimes had been completed. "Offenses known to the police" included,
 therefore, all of the above offenses, including attempts, which were
 reported by the police departments and not merely arrests or cleared
cases.

Tags: arrests, crime-rates, crime-reporting, crime-statistics, law-enforcement, offenses, uniform-crime-reports
Organization: Department of Justice
California Vital Statistics and Homicide Data, 1990-1999

This data collection resulted from the project "Linked
Homicide File for 1990-1999," which was conducted by the California
Department of Health Services (CDHS), Epidemiology and Prevention for
Injury Control Branch, for the purpose of studying homicide and
providing evidence for the development of strategies to reduce
homicide in California. The researchers combined the strengths of law
enforcement reporting and medical reporting in one dataset. The
homicide data contain information on victims and circumstances of the
34,542 homicides investigated by law enforcement agencies in
California for the period 1990 to 1999. The data are Supplementary
Homicide Reports (SHR), which are received monthly by the Department
of Justice from all local California law enforcement agencies as part
of the national Uniform Crime Reporting program (UNIFORM CRIME REPORTS
[UNITED STATES]: SUPPLEMENTARY HOMICIDE REPORTS, 1976-1999 [ICPSR
3180]). The researchers linked the SHRs to the CDHS vital statistics
mortality data, which contain the death records provided by the
medical examiner or coroner of each county after investigation of the
death. Variables include total number of offenders involved, weapon
used in the homicide, county of the victim's residence, location and
date of the incident, date of death, cause of death, date of arrest
for the suspect, and whether supplemental homicide report matched the
death record. Demographic data include age, sex, and race of the victim
and the suspect, relationships between the suspect and the victim, and
the victim's marital status.

Tags: causes-of-death, homicide, offenders, victims, vital-statistics
Organization: Department of Justice
Executions in the United States, 1608-1991: The Espy File [Instructional Materials]

These instructional materials were prepared for use with
EXECUTIONS IN THE UNITED STATES, 1608-1991: THE ESPY FILE (ICPSR
8451), compiled by M. Watt Espy and John Ortiz Smykla. The data file
(an SPSS portable file) and accompanying documentation are provided to
assist educators in instructing students about the history of capital
punishment in the United States. An instructor's handout is also
included. This handout contains the following sections, among others:
(1) general goals for student analysis of quantitative datasets, (2)
specific goals in studying this dataset, (3) suggested appropriate
courses for use of the dataset, (4) tips for using the dataset, and
(5) related secondary source readings. This dataset furnishes data on
executions performed under civil authority in the United States
between 1608 and April 24, 1991, and describes each individual executed
and the circumstances surrounding the crime for which the person was
convicted. Variables include age, race, name, sex, and occupation of
the offender, place, jurisdiction, date, and method of execution, and
the crime for which the offender was executed. Also recorded are data
on whether the only evidence for the execution was official records
indicating that an individual (executioner or slave owner) was
compensated for an execution.

Tags: capital-punishment, civil-rights, crime, criminal-justice-system, executions, instructional-materials, offenders, offenses
Organization: Department of Justice
State Court Organization Trends, United States, 1980-2011

This data collection provides detailed comparative information about the structure, policies, and procedures of state-wide trial and appellate court systems for the 50 states and the District of Columbia within the United States for the years 1980, 1987, 1993, 1998, 2004, and 2011. Information gathered includes: the number of courts and judges, judicial selection, governance of court systems (including judicial funding, administration, staffing, and procedures), jury qualifications and verdict rules, and processing and sentencing procedures of criminal cases. Data collection was carried out by the National Center for State Courts.

Tags: appellate-courts, court-system, judge-selection, judges, juries, policies-and-procedures, state-courts, trial-courts
Organization: Department of Justice
State Court Organization, United States, 2011

This data collection provides detailed comparative information about the structure, policies, and procedures of state-wide trial and appellate court systems for the 50 states and the District of Columbia in the United States for 2011. Information gathered includes: the number of courts and judges, judicial selection, governance of court systems (including judicial funding, administration, staffing, and procedures), jury qualifications and verdict rules, and processing and sentencing procedures of criminal cases. Data collection was carried out by the National Center for State Courts.  These data are part of a related collection from the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, and U.S. Virgin Islands in the United States for the years 1980, 1987, 1993, 1998, and 2004.
In 2011, State Court Organization added new variables to the data collection process. The State Court Organization 2011 file contains the historical variables for 2011, as well as the new variables that were introduced in the 2004 collection. The new variables included data about
the courts' information technology systems, including the functions of the court's IT staff, e-filing procedures, accessibility of court information through online systems, and the implementation of case management systems as a means of organizing and managing a court's caseload. The data are reported for trial and appellate courts.
The SCO Trial Court Level Data 2011 file includes a subset of the State Court Organization 2011 file, but only for trial level courts. Some variables in the State Court Organization 2011 file were recoded in the Trial Court Level Data 2011 file.

Tags: appellate-courts, caseloads, court-system, information-technology, judge-selection, judges, juries, policies-and-procedures, state-courts, trial-courts
Organization: Department of Justice