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DOJ press-release corpus, 2020–2026

135,405 Department of Justice press releases, dated October 25, 2019 through September 15, 2026, harvested from the DOJ's public API on July 4, 2026 and swept again on September 15, 2026 as two compressed JSON-lines files: the whole corpus the three enforcement tables were built from.

Rows135,405
Columnssee dictionary
Files2 · 120.0 MB
FormatJSON Lines, gzip
Source vintage2019-10-25 through 2026-07-03, harvested 2026-07-04; supplement 2026-07-06 through 2026-09-15, swept 2026-09-15
Published byU.S. Department of Justice
Acquired / built2026-07-04
Releasepandemic-darlings-data-v1-2026-07-10
Official sourcejustice.gov · press releases ↗ local copy
MirrorMirrored · 2 files · verified 2026-09-18
RightsU.S. government public records; no additional rights asserted over the source text.
Schemadoj-press-releases-2020-2026.json

Files 2Official source ↗ local copyMeasuredColumnsCaveats

Measured on the preserved copy

Facts below were measured on 2026-09-12 by streaming the preserved files, after checking that each file's SHA-256 equals the manifest's. They describe the exact bytes the derived tables were built from.

Files verified2 of 2 · SHA-256 = manifest
Rows / records135,405
Dates2019-10-25 → 2026-09-15
Releases with body text131,207 · avg 2,848 chars
Issuing components172
DOJ press releases per month, whole corpus — counts every row of the preserved copy of this collection by the year-month of the date field, measured on 2026-09-12 on files whose SHA-256 matched the manifest.
DOJ press releases per month, whole corpusColumns, one per calendar month from 2019-10 to 2026-07, height equal to the number of records dated in that month.01K2K201920202020-10: 2K202120222023202420252026
The numbers behind this chart
MonthReleases
2019-10368
2019-112K
2019-122K
2020-012K
2020-022K
2020-031K
2020-04786
2020-051K
2020-062K
2020-072K
2020-082K
2020-092K
2020-102K
2020-111K
2020-121K
2021-011K
2021-021K
2021-032K
2021-042K
2021-052K
2021-062K
2021-072K
2021-082K
2021-092K
2021-102K
2021-112K
2021-122K
2022-011K
2022-022K
2022-032K
2022-042K
2022-052K
2022-062K
2022-072K
2022-082K
2022-092K
2022-102K
2022-112K
2022-122K
2023-012K
2023-022K
2023-032K
2023-042K
2023-052K
2023-062K
2023-071K
2023-082K
2023-092K
2023-102K
2023-112K
2023-121K
2024-012K
2024-022K
2024-032K
2024-042K
2024-052K
2024-062K
2024-072K
2024-082K
2024-092K
2024-102K
2024-112K
2024-121K
2025-012K
2025-022K
2025-032K
2025-042K
2025-052K
2025-062K
2025-072K
2025-082K
2025-092K
2025-10379
2025-111K
2025-122K
2026-012K
2026-022K
2026-032K
2026-042K
2026-051K
2026-061K
2026-07119
Ten components that issued the most releases — counts records of the preserved corpus by the component field.
Ten components that issued the most releasesHorizontal bars, one per issuing component, length proportional to the number of releases.Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)11KBureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF)6KUSAO - Massachusetts5KUSAO - Florida, Middle4KDrug Enforcement Administration (DEA)4KUSAO - Pennsylvania, Western3KUSAO - South Dakota3KUSAO - New Jersey3KUSAO - Texas, Southern3KUSAO - West Virginia, Southern3K
The numbers behind this chart
ComponentReleases
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)11K
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF)6K
USAO - Massachusetts5K
USAO - Florida, Middle4K
Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)4K
USAO - Pennsylvania, Western3K
USAO - South Dakota3K
USAO - New Jersey3K
USAO - Texas, Southern3K
USAO - West Virginia, Southern3K
  • 135,405 records across 2 files, one JSON object per line, fields url, title, date, component, number, body_text. date is a Unix timestamp, not a string. The harvest was cut at 2020-01-01 and taken on 2026-07-04, but the field is the date the DOJ record carries: it runs 2019-10-25 to 2026-07-03, with 3,653 records dated before 2020-01-01 — the harvest stopped at the first API page that reached past the cutoff and kept the whole page. One record in the file carries 2026-07-30, a date after the harvest itself; the DOJ has since corrected that record to 2026-06-30.
  • body_text is present on 99.9% of records, averaging 2,848 characters, HTML stripped.
  • 172 issuing components; the largest: Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) (11,271), Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) (6,137), USAO - Massachusetts (5,379), USAO - Florida, Middle (4,463), Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) (3,620).

What it is

Every press release the DOJ published in the window, not only pandemic cases: each record carries the DOJ's identifier, date, title, URL, issuing component, and the text of the release. It is kept whole so that any parsed field in the enforcement tables can be checked back to the sentence it came from, and so the tables can be rebuilt with different search terms.

Where it comes from

Collected on July 4, 2026 by paging the DOJ's press-release API (justice.gov/api/v1/press_releases.json) newest-first back to January 1, 2020, fifty releases a page, and trimmed to the fields above. The API is public and rate-limited; the same harvest can be repeated, and releases published after 2026-07-04 are not in this copy.

Files

Two gzip-compressed JSON-lines files, one release per line.

FileRowsSizeSHA-256Preserved copy
doj_press_releases_2020-2026_slim.jsonl.gz131,293116.1 MB30347880e1cf558b682bdf4677f45bc6db99a52b037e17bde03839b6f34b5ab4verified · 2019-10-25 → 2026-07-03Download (116.1 MB)
doj_press_releases_2026-07-04_2026-09-15_slim.jsonl.gz4,1123.9 MB9640a2297e3665f08038b365f65ee78eaa4bd3dbde6b6b3082fe0379817d33d1verified · 2026-07-06 → 2026-09-15Download (3.9 MB)
Mirror statusBoth files are online as preserved copies on the archive's originals host (the links in the table); the SHA-256 values above are the checksums of the files as served.

Columns

One JSON object per line with the release's identifier, date, title, URL, issuing component, and body text. The schema file lists no columns because the file is not tabular.

Caveats

  • A press release is not the filing. The DOJ's account of a case is a summary written for the public; the charging document and judgment control.
  • Coverage ends with the 2026-07-04 harvest, though the dates the records carry run 2019-10-25 to 2026-07-03.
  • The corpus is an API harvest and is not a substitute for the operative court filing in a specific case.
Cite this collection. Name the source vintage; the numbers depend on it.Department of Justice press-release corpus, records dated 2019-10-25 through 2026-07-03, harvested from the DOJ API on 2026-07-04, as preserved by Pandemic Darlings, release pandemic-darlings-data-v1-2026-07-10, https://pandemicdarlings.com/data/doj-press-releases-2020-2026/
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