Department of Justice federal obligations in Louisiana

Agency 015 meeting Louisiana

Department of Justice as awarding agency, Louisiana as place-of-performance: 1,160 records summing to $424,773,420.16. A Department of Justice award coded outside LA is out. An award in Louisiana from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Louisiana (LA) excludes Texas, Arkansas, and Mississippi. A New Orleans-coded award with a Mississippi place-of-performance tag is a different cell.

1,160 awards against $424,773,420.16 is a 1,160-award justice file, thicker than a typical grants book of this dollar size. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 1160 as 1160 unique case filings, prison headcounts, or named courthouses. Department of Justice in Louisiana is the both-keys table. Louisiana federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Justice is the agency book without an LA filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Component names such as FBI, USMS, or BOP are not split on this aggregate. The awarding-agency code is 015. Correlation is not causation: Louisiana did not cause $424,773,420.16 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 015 × LA only.

A DOJ cell is not a docket list

$424,773,420.16 does not measure case filings, prison headcounts, or named courthouses. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 015 and an LA place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 1160 awards as a census of case filings, prison headcounts, or named courthouses. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Louisiana federal spending or Department of Justice matched $424,773,420.16 and 1160, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Neighboring-state DOJ joins are other pairs, not addends.

Louisiana, not a parish-by-parish map

Place of performance LA is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Louisiana (LA) excludes Texas, Arkansas, and Mississippi. A New Orleans-coded award with a Mississippi place-of-performance tag is a different cell. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

This packet does not split $424,773,420.16 by city, county, or named facility. 1160 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract. Campaign-finance filings do not fund these USAspending obligations.

Eleven hundred sixty obligations, not outlays

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $424,773,420.16 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Louisiana confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Louisiana’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 1,160 awards 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 $424,773,420.16. Sharing a geography with Department of Justice does not mean FEC donations funded these awards.

Citing the Department of Justice in Louisiana

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Justice (agency 015) obligated $424,773,420.16 on 1,160 awards coded to Louisiana. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as case filings, prison headcounts, or named courthouses.

Prefer Department of Justice in Louisiana if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Louisiana federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to LA. Department of Justice is the 015 parent without the LA filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $424,773,420.16.

A usable footnote names Department of Justice, Louisiana, $424,773,420.16, and 1160. The compact headline $424.8M is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $366,183.98 is $424,773,420.16 divided by 1160. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has Department of Justice obligated in Louisiana?

USAspending.gov records $424,773,420.16 across 1,160 awards with awarding agency 015 and a Louisiana tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not Louisiana’s full federal book. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.

Does $424.8 million measure Louisiana court caseloads?

No. $424,773,420.16 is an obligation sum on awarding-agency 015 × LA. It does not measure case filings, prison headcounts, or named courthouses. Those series are not fields on this aggregate. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov. The join is a catalog intersection, not a budget.

Why does this DOJ file have 1160 awards?

1160 is an award-record count, including possible continuations and modifications. Dividing $424,773,420.16 by 1160 yields about $366,183.98 as a mean, not a typical project. Unique recipients are unpublished. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.

Where is the live table for Department of Justice in Louisiana?

Department of Justice in Louisiana is the overlay for both keys. Louisiana federal spending is the all-agency Louisiana hub. Department of Justice is the agency parent. All spending ties indexes other spending ties. Prefer the overlay when both filters must stay on.