California Justice Watch

Search the public database of California District Attorneys with documented misconduct or controversy. Returns name, county, in-office date, misconduct type, description, source URL.

Get a full DA record by name (exact or close partial match).

Search the public database of California public defenders with documented case outcomes, failures, or systemic-context entries. Includes Bar number, county, office, score.

Get a full defender record by Bar number id or name.

Search current California judges by name and/or court type (e.g., "superior", "appeal", "supreme"). Returns name + court type pairs.

Search the public database of California law enforcement officers with documented misconduct or decertification. Includes name, agency, basis.

Get a full officer record by name (with optional agency filter for disambiguation).

Search the California Commission on Judicial Performance (CJP) public-discipline records — judges censured, admonished, or removed for misconduct. Source: cjp.ca.gov public decisions.

Semantic search over the full text of CJP public-discipline decisions (250 PDFs ingested). Use this for topic questions ("racial bias", "drug-related misconduct", "ex parte communications") or when you need passages, not just summary records. Returns matching passages with citations. Distinct from search_cjp (which searches the summary-record JSON).

Search the California POST decertification database — law enforcement officers stripped of their POST certification. Source: post.ca.gov public records.

Return the top-N California DAs by editorial severity score (descending). Use for "worst DA" / "most-disciplined DA" / ranking questions. Optional county filter. Only manually-scored records are returned.

Return the top-N California judges by CJP discipline severity (removal > censure > admonishment, descending). Use for "worst judge" / "most-disciplined judge" / ranking questions.

Return the top-N California law enforcement officers by editorial severity score (descending). Use for "worst officer" / "most-disciplined officer" / ranking questions. Optional agency filter.