Department of Justice federal obligations in California

A high-count DOJ file on California

Department of Justice as awarding agency, California as place-of-performance: 10,334 records summing to $3,260,905,370.48. A Department of Justice award coded outside CA is out. An award in California from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. California (CA) excludes Nevada, Oregon, Arizona, and Hawaii. A Reno-coded award is Nevada even if a case crosses.

Ten thousand three hundred thirty-four awards is a high-count DOJ action file: many more rows than a thin Energy cell, still a record count rather than unique cases. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 10,334 as 10,334 unique prosecutions, prison beds, or unique defendants. The overlay Department of Justice in California is the both-keys table. California federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Justice is the agency book without a CA filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Central, Northern, and Southern District folklore is not a packet split. $3,260,905,370.48 stays on 015 × CA. Correlation is not causation: California did not “cause” $3,260,905,370.48 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 015 × CA only.

Award rows are not unique prosecutions

$3,260,905,370.48 does not measure prosecutions, prison beds, or unique defendants. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 015 and a CA place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 10,334 awards as a census of prosecutions, prison beds, or unique defendants. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If California federal spending or Department of Justice matched $3,260,905,370.48 and 10,334, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Nevada, Oregon, and Arizona DOJ joins are other pairs, not addends.

California, not a nine-district rollup

Place of performance CA is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. California (CA) excludes Nevada, Oregon, Arizona, and Hawaii. A Reno-coded award is Nevada even if a case crosses. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

Central, Northern, and Southern District folklore is not a packet split. $3,260,905,370.48 stays on 015 × CA. This packet does not split $3,260,905,370.48 by city, county, or named facility. 10,334 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract.

Grant and contract stock versus cash paid

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $3,260,905,370.48 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in California confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

California’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 10,334-award USAspending file leaves this series. No fiscal year is published in this packet, so this page does not invent one. Keep the obligation label on $3,260,905,370.48.

Citing DOJ in California

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Justice (agency 015) obligated $3,260,905,370.48 on 10,334 awards coded to California. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as prosecutions, prison beds, or unique defendants.

Prefer Department of Justice in California if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. California federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to CA. Department of Justice is the 015 parent without the CA filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $3,260,905,370.48.

A usable footnote names Department of Justice, California, $3,260,905,370.48, and 10,334. The compact headline $3.26 billion is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $315,551 is $3,260,905,370.48 divided by 10,334. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has the Department of Justice obligated in California?

USAspending.gov records $3,260,905,370.48 across 10,334 awards with awarding agency 015 and a California tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of prosecutions, prison beds, or unique defendants. Department of Justice in California is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $3,260,905,370.48.

Is $3,260,905,370.48 a measure of prosecutions, prison beds, or unique defendants?

No. The packet publishes $3,260,905,370.48 and 10,334 awards for agency 015 inside CA coding. Those other series are unpublished here. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote the dollar total and the award count together. Obligations are not outlays.

Why does this DOJ file have 10,334 awards?

That is the award-record count for 015 × CA. Combined with $3,260,905,370.48, the average is about $315,551. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 10,334 is not unique prosecutions, prison beds, or unique defendants. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live table?

Department of Justice in California is the overlay. California federal spending and Department of Justice are the parents, not addends. All spending ties lists other pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $3,260,905,370.48. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.