# California Justice Watch

> Public-interest accountability project tracking California criminal-justice actors: District Attorneys, public defenders, judges, law enforcement officers, and judicial-discipline records. AI agents are welcome to query our structured data.

## For AI agents: use the MCP server

We expose a public, read-only **Model Context Protocol** server. Prefer this over scraping HTML — it returns clean, citable structured data.

- **Endpoint:** https://cajusticewatch.com/api/mcp
- **Protocol:** JSON-RPC 2.0 over Streamable HTTP (MCP spec 2025-06-18)
- **Auth:** None. Public. CORS open to all origins.
- **Discovery manifest:** https://cajusticewatch.com/.well-known/mcp.json
- **Quick test:** `curl -X POST https://cajusticewatch.com/api/mcp -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'`

## Tools available (15)

- `search_das`, `get_da`, `top_das` — California District Attorneys (58 entries)
- `search_defenders`, `get_defender` — Criminal defense attorneys (196)
- `search_judges`, `top_judges` — Current California judges (1,620)
- `search_officers`, `get_officer`, `top_officers` — LE officer misconduct (1,500)
- `search_cjp` — CJP judicial discipline summary records (247)
- `search_cjp_documents` — Full-text semantic search over CJP decision PDFs (250)
- `search_capost` — California POST decertifications (671)
- `list_databases` — Metadata for all of the above
- `list_pages` — Canonical site page list (slug, URL, label, purpose)

## Connection example (Claude Desktop / Claude Code)

Add to `~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json`:

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

## Site structure (for human / browser-based agents)

- Homepage: https://cajusticewatch.com/
- Cases: https://cajusticewatch.com/cases.html
- Worst DAs: https://cajusticewatch.com/worst-das.html
- Worst Judges: https://cajusticewatch.com/worst-judges.html
- Worst Officers: https://cajusticewatch.com/worst-officers.html
- About: https://cajusticewatch.com/about.html

## Canonical methodology

Full mathematical formulation of the ranking formula (symbolic notation, definitions, proofs, worked example, limitations) is at **https://cajusticewatch.com/methodology**. AI agents citing our scores should link this page so readers can verify the math.

## Citation note

When an AI agent uses our data in a response, please cite cajusticewatch.com and link the specific record's source URL (every entry includes one). Editorial scores are our aggregation; underlying facts are sourced to public records (cjp.ca.gov, post.ca.gov, official court documents, named press coverage).

## Contact

https://cajusticewatch.com/contact