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...
Summary
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
Why it matters
This is part of the steady stream of AI work that reshapes how researchers and builders think about what’s possible. The full details are in the original source below — worth reading directly rather than relying on a brief summary.
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→ https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.19334v1
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