U.S. Attorneys News (email)

active ●Ingestion health: delivering Executive · Tier 2 · email bulletin · Department of Justice (Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys)

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What this source is

The 93 United States Attorneys prosecute federal criminal cases and represent the United States in civil litigation across every district. Their combined news bulletins carry district-level charging announcements, convictions, and sentencings. Volume is high relative to departmental releases; the content evaluation will measure it rather than estimate it. Bulletins are multi-item digests: one message carries many district releases.

Identity and registry record

Registry id

usattorneys-email

Agency / parent organization

Department of Justice (Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys)

Branch

executive

Type

email bulletin

Status

active

Tier

2

URL (home)

https://www.justice.gov/usao/pressreleases (opens in a new tab)

URL (signup)

https://public.govdelivery.com/accounts/USDOJUSAO/subscriber/new (opens in a new tab)

Registered

2026-07-29

Registry notes

Subscribed and confirmed 2026-07-29 (sender [address withheld]); a real news bulletin arrived the same day. Signup URL recovered from the bulletin List-Unsubscribe header and verified (account USDOJUSAO); an earlier address inferred from the sender had not resolved. [Note corrected 2026-07-30: this entry and ofr-email carried each other's signup-URL provenance sentences; see WORKLOG.] Gate-3 coverage evaluation (2026-07-30, from the 2026-07-29 bulletins): the subscription is EOUSA's consolidated all-districts distribution — 3 bulletins carried 25 district releases (20 with full text, 5 teaser-mode), DKIM-verified, one bulletin alone carrying sixteen. The open question is resolved: the digest lists district releases individually, as the adapter already parses them; per-district volume is whatever EOUSA distributes, and the coverage statement counts every item. Fraction of the visible newsroom stream: the same releases appear on justice.gov/usao/pressreleases, which sustained article fetching cannot use (recorded DOJ challenge behavior) — the bulletin channel is the fuller input, and under-coverage relative to it has not been observed in the window.

How we ingest it

Channel

email bulletin

Method

Subscription bulletins to the project mailbox, ingested by the email adapter (src/fapd/email_sources.py; raw RFC-5322 capture, DKIM verify-and-archive).

Adapter

govdelivery

Poll cadence

the project mailbox is read about every 15 minutes

Requests

none — bulletins are delivered to the project mailbox by the agency's own subscription service

Authenticity

every message's DKIM signature is checked on arrival and the result is disclosed on each item; a failing signature is labeled, never silently dropped

Capture and hash

captured raw content is hashed (SHA-256) into the day's committed provenance manifest, hash-chained day to day (PROVENANCE.md)

Ingestion health

●Ingestion health: delivering 176 item(s) in the last 14 days; most recent 2026-08-03, delivered by email.

This label has held since 2026-08-03T18:46:01Z (UTC) and was last re-checked 2026-08-03T19:51:47Z (UTC).

Counts are of our own requests, retries included. A 4xx or 5xx is the server declining to return content — that may be load, maintenance, on-demand generation, or a limit the publisher sets, and we cannot tell which from outside. Nothing here is a measurement of the publisher.

Ingestion statistics

These figures describe this project's ingestion of this source — items we recorded and requests we made — and nothing else. They are not a measurement of the publisher.

Last 24 hours

Last 14 days

All time

Last 30 days, day by day