CasePulse
A secure case tracker that follows police-involved incidents from charging through sentencing, parole eligibility, and clemency, with personalized alerts for affected families and accountability advocates.
families of victims of police-involved fatalities, accountability journalists, and advocacy organizations
- Auto-tracked court dates, motions, and rulings pulled from public dockets and PACER-style feeds
- Push alerts before hearings plus plain-language summaries of legal filings
- Family-controlled timeline where loved ones can add private context, photos, and milestones
- Advocate directory vetted by partner nonprofits, plus a shareable dossier for press use
Coverage of cases like Sonya Massey's shows families and journalists manually stitching together court updates — the news cycle just surfaced an obvious workflow gap.
Tracking (In)Justice (Carleton) explicitly notes 'no publicly available central resource that consistently documents police use-of-force-involved deaths at a national scale,' and the Sonya Massey case required family members and multiple outlets (NPR Illinois, ABC News) to manually publish updates through trial and sentencing — confirming fragmented workflow.Sean Grayson sentenced to 20 years in prison for the murder of Sonya Massey ↗Tracking (In)Justice - Explore The Data ↗
Fatal Encounters and Mapping Police Violence catalog the fatal encounter itself but do not track the downstream criminal case lifecycle (charging → trial → sentencing → parole → clemency); CLEAN focuses on misconduct documents; Tracking (In)Justice is Canada-only; the DOJ shut down NLEAD — leaving the post-charging lifecycle genuinely unfilled in the US.Fatal Encounters ↗Mapping Police Violence ↗
Direct B2C is weak: victim families are typically bereaved and low-income, and advocacy organizations run on tight budgets. The closest viable model is grant/funder-backed (Fatal Encounters is sustained by USC and NICHD grants; Tracking (In)Justice via SSHRC) — real but limited revenue ceiling.Fatal Encounters ↗Tracking (In)Justice - Carleton University ↗
Police-accountability tracking is a decades-old structural concern (Fatal Encounters since ~2014), and recent federal rollbacks (NLEAD decommissioned in 2025) increase demand for independent infrastructure — though political volatility around such data is a real long-term risk.Trump's Department of Justice removes database tracking police misconduct ↗
CourtListener covers federal cases free, but US state criminal court records are highly fragmented across counties with inconsistent APIs/scraping rules; tracking from charging through parole eligibility and clemency requires stitching PACER, state e-dockets, DOC inmate locators, and clemency boards — a substantial data-engineering lift, not trivial.