Virginia Courts Case Information - Statewide Searches ARE Possible
http://VACircuitCourtSearch.com
Developed at the 2014 Virginia Coalition for Open Government Annual Conference in Roanoke, VA for journalists who need to run statewide searches on the Virginia Circuit Court site, but don't have the time to search each district individually.
- Make sure you have Python and Pip installed. On OS X, you can use brew to install Python and you get Pip as well.
brew install python
- Install the requirements
pip install -r requirements.txt
- Set MongoDB instance
$ export MONGO_URI=mongodb://<dbuser>:<dbpassword>@ds027761.mongolab.com:27761/va-circuit-court-search
-OR- for Windows
$ set MONGO_URI=mongodb://<dbuser>:<dbpassword>@ds027761.mongolab.com:27761/va-circuit-court-search
- Run the server
python courts.py
- Browse to
http://0.0.0.0:5000/
- CharlotteCircuitCourt - case number has F/M after year (i.e. F00001)
- ChesterfieldCircuitCourt - case number has F/M after year (i.e. F00001)
- GoochlandCircuitCourt - case number has F/M before case number (i.e. 0000F1)
- LeeCircuitCourt - case number has F/M after year and one 0 (i.e. 0F0001)
- PageCircuitCourt - case number has F/M after year (i.e. F00001)
- RichmondCityCircuitCourt - case number has F/M after year (i.e. F00001)
- WiseCircuitCourt - case number has F/M after year (i.e. F00001)
- AmherstCircuitCourt - (2014: 14890 - 15204)
- BedfordCircuitCourt - (2014: 11169 - 11554)
- BristolCircuitCourt - (2014: 1018 - 1483)
- ClarkeCircuitCourt - (2014: 7390 - 7675)
- FranklinCircuitCourt - (2014: 19481 - 19850, 56075 - 56757)
- LoudounCircuitCourt - (2014: 26174 - 27371) (CR00)
- MadisonCircuitCourt - (2014: 5577 - 5705)
- RadfordCircuitCourt - (2014: 12707 - 13605)
- RussellCircuitCourt - (2014: 2681 - 2768, 15845 - 15999, 16959 - 17891)
- WilliamsburgJamesCityCountyCircuitCourt - (2014: 23238 - 24221)
- YorkCountyPoquosonCircuitCourt - (2014: 8011 - 8446)
- AmherstCircuitCourt - cases commenced by reinstatement use original case number with letter (A, B, ...) after CRYY
- BristolCircuitCourt - probation violations have same case number with a V after CRYY
- CliftonForgeCircuitCourt - independent city until 2001, now part of Alleghany County
- VirginiaBeachCircuitCourt - cases from 2014 on different website
- YorkCountyPoquosonCircuitCourt - cases commenced by reinstatement have different numbering