CourtWatch Military
A searchable transparency dashboard of Military Police Complaints Commission reports, court-martial outcomes, and command-level disciplinary patterns, sold to newsrooms and oversight NGOs.
investigative journalists and military-oversight advocates tracking patterns in misconduct charges and outcomes
- Searchable archive of MPCC reports, court-martial dockets, and disciplinary outcomes by name, command, and offense type
- Alerts when a previously named officer is reassigned, promoted, or cleared in subsequent filings
- Outlier flags for commands whose charge rates diverge sharply from their peers
- Exportable timelines and CSV drops designed for investigative reporting workflows
The Officer X investigation in the Ottawa Citizen only emerged through leaked MPCC documents and parliamentary testimony; aggregating public filings would shorten the gap between misconduct and public visibility.
MPCC publishes annual PDFs and CanLII hosts court-martial decisions from 2004+, but the 'Officer X' framing did not surface any dedicated Ottawa Citizen coverage in search — suggesting a small, niche audience of Canadian military-affairs reporters rather than broad demand.Military Justice Statistics - Canada.ca ↗Reports - MPCC ↗
No competing unified dashboard found; MPCC outputs are PDFs, court-martial decisions live on CanLII, and DCDS results sit on Open Canada — all fragmented across separate portals with no aggregation layer.Court Martial decisions and transcripts | Courthouse Libraries BC ↗Director of Defence Counsel Services - Results of completed cases ↗
Underlying data is free on government/open-data portals, target buyers are budget-constrained Canadian newsrooms and grant-funded NGOs, and no evidence of comparable SaaS pricing in this niche — willingness-to-pay is weak.ANNUAL REPORT 2023 - publications.gc.ca ↗
MPCC is a statutory tribunal with annual reporting obligations and the External Monitor role continues producing reports, so the source data stream is durable and likely to expand given ongoing CAF misconduct scrutiny.External Monitor Report - Sixth Status Report - Canada.ca ↗
Buildable via PDF scraping of MPCC reports plus CanLII/open.canada.ca ingestion, but cross-linking complaints to outcomes and normalizing command-level identifiers is non-trivial NLP work for a niche dataset.