MARYLAND
COMPANIES – DMV
DC corporate charters (free registration required)
Maryland corporate charters
Virginia corporate charters
COURTS – DMV
DC Superior Superior Court and Court of Appeals
Maryland courts
Journalist’s Guide to Maryland’s Legal System
VA courts and virginiacourtdata.org (statewide bulk data for criminal courts)
Federal courts PACER (registration required + fee per page viewed)
- Install the RECAP extension on Chrome and Firefox and get many PACER documents for free.
Google Scholar (all federal court opinions; for state courts, only appellate and supreme court opinions)
Broadcastify – Live and archived police, aircraft, vessel scanners by location
Courtreference Links to all 50 states’ courts and, for each state, what kinds of cases are filed where. (Note that many states don’t have statewide searches available; you have to search county by county.)
Hall of Justice – Sunlight Foundation compilation of national and state criminal justice datasets
HEALTH DATA – DMV
LICENSES – DMV
Maryland Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation
PHONE DIRECTORIES – DMV
PRISONS – DMV
Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator
PROPERTY – DMV
DC
District government Property Quest
- Owner, ward, police district, census and street view by address
Maryland
Statewide property records
- For digital images
Montgomery County, property, rental, licensing, etc.
Virginia
DMV Washington Post Real estate search
POLITICS – DMV
NCSL State Legislature Website Directory has links for finding bills, statutes, testimony
Legislation
Virginia
Legiscan National search of state legislation
Campaign contributions and lobbying
Opensecrets.org/states federal campaign contributions by state
Maryland
State of Maryland Ethics Commission campaign contributions search page | lobbying search page
Followthemoney.org for Maryland
Virginia
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