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Data Use and Licensing

Every dataset carries its own source, provenance, privacy, and reuse terms.

CourtScope code is AGPL-3.0. Court records and derived datasets may have different rights and restrictions. Download pages identify attribution, redistribution, commercial-use, and prohibited-use rules for each release.

What controls

Official source terms, applicable law, dataset-specific notices, and the current published CourtScope methodology control where they are more specific. Contact info@courtscope.org for questions.

Last updated: July 11, 2026

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What is CourtScope?

CourtScope examines many cases to find racial gaps in sentencing outcomes.