For journalists + researchers
Press + Research Partnership
Free with citation · co-author options
Status: Active. Custom data pulls and on-record commentary available for active stories. Response within one business day.
Working on a story about Virginia criminal justice? We'll pull custom data from the 1.68M case indexand give you fact-check support — no charge, in exchange for citation. The same data layer behind four published 2025 research reports is available for verifiable reporting.
vs. the free site at virginiacourtfile.com
What you get beyond what's already public.
- 4 published research reports (cite freely)
- Aggregate stats by charge × jurisdiction
- Attorney + prosecutor profile pages
- Methodology page for editor fact-checks
- Static published artifacts — what we've already published.
- Custom data pulls for your specific story — cuts of the 1.68M case index not yet in any published report.
- On-record commentary with full methodology citation for your editor.
- Fact-check support — we'll review your numbers before publication.
- Embargo handling for investigative pieces — we hold findings until your publication window.
- Pre-publication briefings on emerging patterns we haven't yet published.
- Co-authoring options for long-form research.
- Free with citation. Standard attribution: “Data provided by VirginiaCourtFile.”
The free site is what we've published. The partnership is what we haven't published yet— shaped to your story and fact-checked before it hits print.
What you can ask for
- Custom data pulls— statewide trends, per-charge or per-jurisdiction breakdowns, time-series within 2025.
- Comparative statistics— this venue vs that; this prosecutor vs the statewide median; this charge vs national context.
- Methodology disclosure— defensible documentation of how the data was collected + cleaned for your editor / fact-checker.
- Quotable findings— on-record commentary on what the data shows, with full methodology citation.
- Co-authoring— for aligned long-form research, we'll partner on byline + analysis.
Recent published reports (open access)
- Annual Report 2025 — statewide criminal-outcomes baseline
- DWI 2025 YoY — reduction-rate movement, statewide
- Q1 2026 Circuit Court YoY — felony case-flow movement
- Virginia Prosecutorial Accountability 2025 — CA-office posture across Virginia
Standard terms
Free for accredited journalism + academic research with a public citation. Standard attribution: “Data provided by VirginiaCourtFile (virginiacourtfile.com); methodology at virginiacourtfile.com/methodology.”
No embargo asks unless your editor needs one for an exclusive window. We'll honor reasonable embargoes for major investigative pieces.