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2 July 2026
Local Law Explorer

Local Law Explorer

Browse your local laws - and see patterns across jurisdictions

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About the Project

City and county ordinances govern everyday life: noise, pets, fences, permits, rentals, and starting a business. They are public, but among the most fragmented law in the United States. There is no central index, and every town's code lives on a different site or buried in a PDF, in its own format.

Local Law Explorer turns the open LOCUS-v1 corpus into a browsable page for every city and county it covers. https://huggingface.co/datasets/LocalLaws/LOCUS-v1

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Key Features

  • Browse and search local laws
  • Plain-English report card per town: how the place governs, phrased as honest percentiles, never verdicts.
  • Everyday "Can I…?" questions answered by surfacing the actual local rules that mention them.
  • Patterns explorer: how 47 common subjects are regulated across towns, with a US choropleth map.

About the Creator

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Nick Berk
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