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California criminal-justice accountability: DAs, defenders, judges, officers, CJP, POST.
Remote server: your requests and data go to cajusticewatch.com. Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http california-justice-watch https://cajusticewatch.com/api/mcp · Claude app: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector.
The tools this server listed when we connected to it, in its own words.
search_das — Search the public database of California District Attorneys with documented misconduct or controversy. Returns name, county, in-office date,get_da — Get a full DA record by name (exact or close partial match).search_defenders — Search the public database of California public defenders with documented case outcomes, failures, or systemic-context entries. Includes Barget_defender — Get a full defender record by Bar number id or name.search_judges — Search current California judges by name and/or court type (e.g., "superior", "appeal", "supreme"). Returns name + court type pairs.search_officers — Search the public database of California law enforcement officers with documented misconduct or decertification. Includes name, agency, basiget_officer — Get a full officer record by name (with optional agency filter for disambiguation).search_cjp — Search the California Commission on Judicial Performance (CJP) public-discipline records — judges censured, admonished, or removed for miscosearch_cjp_documents — Semantic search over the full text of CJP public-discipline decisions (250 PDFs ingested). Use this for topic questions ("racial bias", "drusearch_capost — Search the California POST decertification database — law enforcement officers stripped of their POST certification. Source: post.ca.gov publist_databases — List all public databases exposed by this MCP server with their metadata (entry counts, last updated, descriptions).top_das — Return the top-N California DAs by editorial severity score (descending). Use for "worst DA" / "most-disciplined DA" / ranking questions. Optop_judges — Return the top-N California judges by CJP discipline severity (removal > censure > admonishment, descending). Use for "worst judge" / "most-top_officers — Return the top-N California law enforcement officers by editorial severity score (descending). Use for "worst officer" / "most-disciplined olist_pages — Return the canonical list of pages on cajusticewatch.com — slug, URL, label, and purpose. Use this when the user asks about features/pages/tNot tested by KitScout yet. When our harness runs it, pros, cons and the tasks we tried appear here, with the date and evidence.