Show HN: Locus-v1, a dataset of 2.2M local laws and ordinances

Category: other

Tags: dataset, legal-text, municipal-laws

Score: 6.0/10 (Innovation: 6, Technical: 5, Documentation: 4, Utility: 7)

LOCUS-v1 is a dataset containing 2.2 million local laws and ordinances from U.S. municipalities, scraped and aggregated into a structured format. It is interesting because it makes a vast, previously scattered body of legal text accessible for research, analysis, and policy-making, filling a notable gap in public data availability.

Target audience: data engineers, legal researchers, policy analysts

Repository: https://huggingface.co/datasets/LocalLaws/LOCUS-v1

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