Use AI to research California criminal justice

Name: California Justice Watch — public-actor accountability databases
Creator: California Justice Watch
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Keywords: California, criminal justice, prosecutor misconduct, judicial discipline, police misconduct, public records, accountability, CJP, POST, district attorney, public defender

Add California Justice Watch as a tool in any AI agent — Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Cline, Continue, or anything that speaks MCP, REST, or OpenAPI. Pick your client below, copy the config, restart. Your agent now searches our data directly instead of guessing.

58District Attorneys

196Defense Attorneys

1,500Officers (misconduct)

1,620Current Judges

247CJP Discipline Records

250CJP Decision PDFs (RAG)

671CA POST Decertifications

What you can ask

"What's the most-disciplined judge in California?"

"Has San Mateo County's DA ever been cited for misconduct?"

"Find CJP decisions involving racial bias."

"Show all officers decertified from the Bakersfield Police Department."

"Compare misconduct rates across Bay Area counties."

Pick your AI client

Claude Desktop

Edit ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json (macOS) or %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json (Windows). Restart Claude.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "cajusticewatch": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "mcp-remote",
               "https://cajusticewatch.com/api/mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Claude Code (CLI)

One command from your terminal:

claude mcp add cajusticewatch \
  https://cajusticewatch.com/api/mcp \
  --transport http

Cursor

Settings → MCP Servers → Add new server. Or paste in ~/.cursor/mcp.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "cajusticewatch": {
      "url": "https://cajusticewatch.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Cline (VS Code)

Cline → MCP Servers → Add remote. Or edit cline_mcp_settings.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "cajusticewatch": {
      "type": "streamableHttp",
      "url": "https://cajusticewatch.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Continue.dev

Add to ~/.continue/config.json under mcpServers:

{
  "mcpServers": [{
    "name": "cajusticewatch",
    "url": "https://cajusticewatch.com/api/mcp",
    "transport": "streamable-http"
  }]
}

ChatGPT (Custom GPT / Actions)

Create a Custom GPT → Configure → Actions → Import from URL:

https://cajusticewatch.com/openapi.json

Authentication: None. The 15 tools become callable actions.

Perplexity Spaces

Spaces → Custom Connectors → Add OpenAPI URL:

https://cajusticewatch.com/openapi.json

Anything else (raw curl)

Plain HTTP. Works from any language, agent, or shell:

curl https://cajusticewatch.com/api/rest/top_judges?limit=5

The 15 tools your agent gets

search_das — DAs by query / county
get_da — Full DA record by name
top_das — Worst DAs by severity score
search_defenders — Defense attorneys
get_defender — Defender by Bar # or name
search_judges — All current CA judges
top_judges — Worst judges by CJP discipline
search_officers — Officer misconduct
get_officer — Officer by name / agency
top_officers — Worst officers by severity
search_cjp — CJP discipline summary records
search_cjp_documents — Full-text RAG over 250 CJP PDFs
search_capost — POST decertifications
list_databases — Inventory + counts
list_pages — Site page index

Pick your protocol

Protocol	Endpoint	Best for
Model Context Protocol (MCP)	`/api/mcp`	Claude, Cursor, Cline, Continue, any MCP client. JSON-RPC 2.0 over HTTP. Canonical.
REST (plain JSON)	`/api/rest/<tool>`	curl, fetch(), any HTTP client. Discover at `/api/rest`.
OpenAPI 3.1	`/openapi.json`	ChatGPT custom actions, Perplexity Spaces, Postman, OpenAPI generators.

Discovery files (for AI crawlers and registries)

File	Purpose
`/.well-known/mcp.json`	MCP server discovery manifest (tools, endpoint, data sources).
`/.well-known/ai-plugin.json`	Legacy ChatGPT plugin manifest (still respected by some agents).
`/.well-known/mcp-registry-auth`	Public-key proof for the official MCP Registry.
`/llms.txt`	Agent-friendly site map.
`/agents.txt`	Agent capability declaration.
`/openapi.json`	OpenAPI 3.1 spec (dynamically generated from MCP tools).
`/robots.txt`	Includes `Allow:` rules for all of the above.

Official MCP Registry

Listed at the canonical Model Context Protocol registry:

com.cajusticewatch/cajusticewatch  v0.1.0  status: active

Verify: registry.modelcontextprotocol.io. Major aggregators (Smithery, glama.ai, mcp.so, mcp.directory) auto-mirror from there.

Test from your terminal

# Plain REST
curl https://cajusticewatch.com/api/rest/list_databases | jq .
curl "https://cajusticewatch.com/api/rest/top_judges?limit=5" | jq .

# MCP JSON-RPC
curl -X POST https://cajusticewatch.com/api/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}' | jq .

What's not exposed

Read-only and limited to public-actor accountability data. The MCP/REST API does not expose: member accounts, sessions, forum posts, follows, video uploads, authentication endpoints, or anything case-specific. The members system is on a separate D1 database and is not reachable from here.

Citing our data

Every record includes a source_url pointing at the underlying public record (cjp.ca.gov, post.ca.gov, court dockets, named press coverage). Please link those when citing. Editorial severity scores (severity_score_editorial) are our aggregation; underlying facts are public-record. License: CC0 for data, CC-BY 4.0 for editorial scoring. See methodology.

Need the technical reference? See the full MCP server documentation. Questions? Contact us.