Freeing the Law with LOCUS: A Local Ordinance Corpus for the United States
Progress in legal AI increasingly depends on access to authoritative legal text at scale. Yet one of the most consequential layers of American law remains largely absent from existing machine-readable corpora: local ordinances. Local codes govern zoning, housing, business licensing, public health, noise, animal control, and many other domains of everyday regulation, but they are fragmented across vendor platforms designed for human browsing rather than bulk research access. We introduce LOCUS -
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Published: 17 June 2026
Source: arXiv
Category: Research
Topics: Regulation · Copyright & IP · Healthcare
Retrieved: 14 July 2026
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ethics.ai (17 June 2026), “Freeing the Law with LOCUS: A Local Ordinance Corpus for the United States,” evidence record 834, https://ethics.ai/record/834 (originally published by arXiv).
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