Open Data
Access 154,594+ records for journalism, research, and analysis. Available in JSON and CSV formats.
62,743
Court Cases
6,951
GRC Complaints
84,900
Entities
2
Formats
Data source: Case captions and party names are provided as-is from NJ Judiciary exports and may be truncated or incomplete due to fixed-width field limitations in the source data.
Civil court cases from the NJ Judiciary ACMS system, including docket numbers, case titles, parties, venues, filing dates, and disposition information.
Government Records Council complaint decisions, including case numbers, complainants, custodians, decision dates, and outcomes.
Normalized entities including government agencies, municipalities, and individuals extracted and deduplicated from case data.
Cases classified as Open Public Records Act (OPRA) litigation based on case type codes, keywords, and party analysis.
Government agencies and public bodies only, including municipalities, counties, school boards, and state agencies.
Browse the API with Swagger UI. View endpoints, schemas, and example responses.
Open API DocsMachine-readable API documentation in OpenAPI 3.0 format for Postman or other tools.
Download openapi.jsonAll endpoints with file sizes and record counts. Useful for programmatic access.
Download manifest.jsonCourt case data was obtained through a paid data request from the New Jersey Judiciary. GRC complaint data is scraped from the publicly available Government Records Council database.
If you use this data in your research or reporting, please cite:NJ Foundation for Open Government Court Data Project
Data last updated: Mar 27, 2026