Data Notes

Dataset: New York OCA-STAT Act extract
Row grain: one unique, de-identified defendant-docket
Refresh cadence: monthly
Acquisition policy: programmatic discovery/download first, manual browser download second
Provenance file: data/raw/oca_stat/manifest.json

Supplemental pretrial track

Dataset: DCJS/OCA Supplemental Pretrial Release Data File
Row grain: one criminal cycle, which may span multiple offenses or dockets
Current public release in scope: October 2025 bundle covering arraignments from 2019 through 2024
Primary landing directory: data/raw/supplemental_pretrial/
Provenance file: data/raw/supplemental_pretrial/manifest.json
First-pass commands:
- scripts/uvsafe python -m ny_oca_conviction.cli fetch-supplemental-pretrial
- scripts/uvsafe python -m ny_oca_conviction.cli register-manual-supplemental-pretrial --path data/raw/supplemental_pretrial
- scripts/uvsafe python -m ny_oca_conviction.cli validate-supplemental-pretrial
- scripts/uvsafe python -m ny_oca_conviction.cli summarize-supplemental-pretrial

Raw CSVs and processed parquet outputs are intentionally ignored by git.