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Virginia Criminal Court Data Licensing

From $25,000 / year · multi-year contracts

Status: First licensing conversations open. No live customers yet. Sample dataset (30K-row Fairfax slice) available under mutual NDA after a 30-minute call.

The Virginia state-criminal coverage your platform doesn't have. 1.68M cases resolved in 2025, captured in real-time with calendar-time depth your team can't backfill. Cleaned, normalized, indemnified. Weekly refresh delivered to your S3 bucket or API endpoint.

vs. the free site at virginiacourtfile.com

What you can't scrape or republish.

Free at virginiacourtfile.com
  • 4 published research reports (PDF + HTML)
  • Top-level aggregate stats by charge × jurisdiction
  • Attorney + prosecutor + court profile pages
  • Methodology + audit SQL (open access)
  • Use only: read + cite. Republishing in your platform = not licensed.
In your Data License
  • Case-level records — 1.68M rows, not aggregates. The raw substrate.
  • Calendar-time depth — 2025 captured in real-time. Cannot be reconstructed from current CIS access.
  • Cleaned + normalized entity tables — attorney de-duplication, charge-code standardization, prosecutor-office aggregation.
  • Weekly refresh delivered to your S3 / API endpoint.
  • Indemnified — standard data-license terms covering source + methodology.
  • Republishing license — embed in your platform, train models, build analytics. Defined in contract.
  • Multi-year contracts with auto-renew. Locked-in coverage.

The free site is for individual consumption. The license is for your platform's consumption— with usage rights, refresh cadence, and indemnification your legal team will require before integration.

What's licensable

  • Case-level records— 1.68M Virginia criminal cases resolved in 2025. Charge slug, jurisdiction, disposition, sentencing, dates, hearing counts, continuance attribution.
  • Attorney entity table— 16,943 active VA defense attorneys with per-attorney outcome metrics, charge mix, jurisdiction footprint.
  • Prosecutor (CA office) summaries— derived from case-level prosecutor field + the published Virginia Prosecutorial Accountability research-report aggregates. Charge mix, plea-floor patterns, trial rates.
  • Officer dismissal patterns— ~10K officers with per-officer dismissal/reduction rate by charge category.
  • VCSC felony sentencing— FY2023-FY2024 sentences vs guidelines, by circuit + charge, above/below/within tags.
  • Court aggregates— per-court median hearings, calendar days, continuance attribution.
  • Research-report artifacts— the data + audit SQL behind 4 published reports, available under license.

Delivery + terms

  • Format: Parquet to private S3 bucket (default), CSV, or REST API access on request.
  • Refresh cadence: weekly default; monthly + quarterly tiers available.
  • Methodology + provenance documentation included. Public methodology page at virginiacourtfile.com/methodology.
  • License terms: non-exclusive default; exclusive pricing available. 1-3 year terms with auto-renewal.
  • Indemnification: standard data-license terms covering source data + methodology accuracy.
  • Support: dedicated email channel, 5-day SLA on bug fixes, quarterly check-in calls.

The moat you license

Calendar-time data capture— 2025 captured in real-time. Virginia Courts CIS only retains active cases; disposed cases archive out, fields disappear, sealed cases vanish entirely. Your team can build a forward scraper, but cannot reconstruct historical depth without us.

Normalization— attorney name de-duplication, charge-code standardization, prosecutor-office aggregation across VA jurisdictions with different filing conventions. Months of engineering work captured in the deliverable.

Published authority— the same data layer sits behind 4 published research reports cited by AI search and referenced in editorial coverage. Defensible provenance.