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LocalLaws/LOCUS-v1

Name: LOCUS-v1
Creator: LocalLaws
License: cc-by-nc-4.0
Keywords: task_categories:text-classification, language:en, license:cc-by-nc-4.0, size_categories:1M<n<10M, format:parquet, format:optimized-parquet, modality:tabular, modality:text, library:datasets, library:dask, library:polars, library:mlcroissant, arxiv:2606.19334, region:us, law

LOCUS v1.0 This repository contains the dataset presented in the paper Freeing the Law with LOCUS: A Local Ordinance Corpus for the United States. Dataset Summary LOCUS v1.0 is a chunk-level dataset of U.S. municipal and county law text labeled by legal function. Each eligible chunk is assigned a function, a binary is_substantive label, and all substantive provisions are assigned a topic. The dataset is intended for legal text research, local-law structure… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/LocalLaws/LOCUS-v1.

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Author / organization	LocalLaws
License (as declared)	cc-by-nc-4.0
Downloads	544 (as reported by Hugging Face)
Likes	96
Created	6 May 2026
Last updated at source	20 June 2026

lawlegal-nlplocal-governmentmunicipal-lawordinancesclassification

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