Freeing the Law with LOCUS: A Local Ordinance Corpus for the United States
arXiv·medium signal
Releases LOCUS, a large-scale corpus of US local/municipal ordinances—one of the most consequential and least-digitized layers of American law—to support legal AI that depends on authoritative text at scale. A dataset release like this is directly usable for retrieval, fine-tuning, and legal-agent grounding. By Denis Peskoff, Joe Barrow, Christopher Vu et al. (cs.CL/cs.CY/cs.LG).