Partner and Civil-Society Sources
Datasets from nonprofits, research groups, and journalism projects
Most of what UnGovr publishes comes from governments. The datasets below do not: they are published by nonprofits, research groups, journalism projects, and trade associations. Each one is used under its publisher's own terms, with credit and a link back to where it came from, and each is documented in full on the sources page named beside it.
Right to information and open government
Assessments and guides that tell us how strong a country's or state's transparency law is, and where to look for the text. They calibrate the law.ungovr.org directories and never replace the statute each entry cites.
| Source | URL | Data Provided |
|---|---|---|
| Access Info Europe and the Centre for Law and Democracy: Global Right to Information Rating | rti-rating.org | Scored assessment of national right-to-information laws, shown beside each law on the open records directory. See Transparency Laws. |
| Open Government Partnership: country profiles | opengovpartnership.org | Action plan commitments used to identify reform timelines and to cross-check legislative references for member countries. See Transparency Laws. |
| Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press: Open Government Guide | rcfp.org | State-by-state summaries of US open records and open meetings law, used to check exemption categories, response timelines, and procedural rules. See Transparency Laws. |
Budgets and public finance
| Source | URL | Data Provided |
|---|---|---|
| International Budget Partnership: Open Budget Survey | internationalbudget.org | Biennial assessment of national budget transparency, used to calibrate fiscal law scoring and identify statutory gaps. See Transparency Laws. |
| PEFA Secretariat (hosted by the World Bank): PEFA assessments | pefa.org | Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability assessments covering budget credibility, transparency, and external audit, used to validate cross-country scoring. See Transparency Laws. |
Surveillance and civic technology
Datasets behind watchwatch.org. Each deployment record on that site links back to its own source.
| Source | URL | Data Provided |
|---|---|---|
| Electronic Frontier Foundation and the University of Nevada, Reno Reynolds School of Journalism: Atlas of Surveillance | atlasofsurveillance.org | Nationwide baseline of surveillance-technology deployments by US law enforcement agencies. CC BY 4.0. See Surveillance Technology. |
| OpenStreetMap contributors and the DeFlock mapping project | openstreetmap.org | Community-mapped locations of license-plate-reader cameras, used for camera-level coverage comparison and never for agency attribution. © OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database License (ODbL). See Surveillance Technology. |
| McClatchy Southeast and The News & Observer: "Private Eyes" dataset | github.com | Journalist-collected snapshot of agency transparency portals (2023-2024), used for coverage gap analysis. See Surveillance Technology. |
Open data and mapping commons
Shared datasets that many projects build on. UnGovr uses them for boundaries, geocoding, identifiers, and checking entity details against a second source.
| Source | URL | Data Provided |
|---|---|---|
| Wikimedia Foundation: Wikidata | wikidata.org | Entity name matching, Q-IDs, official website addresses, and metadata enrichment through SPARQL queries. CC0 1.0. See General Sources. |
| OpenStreetMap contributors (through Geofabrik extracts, Nominatim, and the Overpass API) | openstreetmap.org | Boundary polygons and road and facility footprints where no official dataset exists, plus address geocoding. © OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database License (ODbL). See Geographic Boundaries, Service Map, and General Sources. |
| Open Civic Data: division identifiers | github.com | Division identifiers cross-walked to UnGovr entities so other civic-data projects can match their records to ours. CC0. See General Sources. |
| GreenInfo Network: California Protected Areas Database (CPAD) | calands.org | Protected area boundaries, shown as service map layers for California counties. See Service Map. |
| Free Law Project: CourtListener | courtlistener.com | Case-law citations and opinion records for leading California Public Records Act decisions. See Transparency Laws. |
Professional associations
| Source | URL | Data Provided |
|---|---|---|
| California State Sheriffs' Association | calsheriffs.org | Current sheriff roster for California's counties, used by sheriffoversight.org. See Law Enforcement & Corrections. |
Standards and frameworks
The security, privacy, and AI governance frameworks that LexLint maps to law (published by NIST, OWASP, MITRE, and others) are credited, with each publisher's licence, on lexlint.io/frameworks. They are not repeated here.