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Jurisdictions

Every entry records the jurisdiction whose authority acted — the federal government, a particular state, or a private actor operating outside any government's authority. This is not where the event happened. An Oregon agency acting on a prisoner held in South Carolina is an Oregon entry; the place is recorded separately on the entry itself.

For the other question — where events physically landed, whichever government acted — see Where it landed.

2,044 entries · 49 of 56 states and territories on the record

What state governments did

Each square is one state, sized equally — a diagram of the record, not a map of the country. Colour is the number of entries in which that state's own government was the acting authority.

1,401 federal entries — 69% of the archive — are not on this diagram. Federal conduct inside a state is federal. See Federal →

AK 1 Alaska — 1 entry ME VT 1 Vermont — 1 entry NH 8 New Hampshire — 8 entries1 institution seated here WA 2 Washington — 2 entries ID 27 Idaho — 27 entries1 institution seated here MT 21 Montana — 21 entries1 institution seated here ND 12 North Dakota — 12 entries1 institution seated here MN 2 Minnesota — 2 entries IL 5 Illinois — 5 entries WI 8 Wisconsin — 8 entries MI 8 Michigan — 8 entries NY 3 New York — 3 entries RI MA 4 Massachusetts — 4 entries OR 3 Oregon — 3 entries NV 1 Nevada — 1 entry WY 12 Wyoming — 12 entries1 institution seated here SD 10 South Dakota — 10 entries1 institution seated here IA 13 Iowa — 13 entries1 institution seated here IN 18 Indiana — 18 entries1 institution seated here OH 15 Ohio — 15 entries1 institution seated here PA 4 Pennsylvania — 4 entries NJ 1 New Jersey — 1 entry CT 1 Connecticut — 1 entry CA 14 California — 14 entries UT 24 Utah — 24 entries1 institution seated here CO 4 Colorado — 4 entries NE 4 Nebraska — 4 entries MO 15 Missouri — 15 entries1 institution seated here KY 9 Kentucky — 9 entries1 institution seated here WV 8 West Virginia — 8 entries1 institution seated here VA 8 Virginia — 8 entries1 institution seated here MD 1 Maryland — 1 entry DC AZ 19 Arizona — 19 entries3 institutions seated here NM 4 New Mexico — 4 entries KS 17 Kansas — 17 entries3 institutions seated here AR 23 Arkansas — 23 entries1 institution seated here TN 42 Tennessee — 42 entries1 institution seated here NC 23 North Carolina — 23 entries1 institution seated here SC 17 South Carolina — 17 entries1 institution seated here DE 1 Delaware — 1 entry OK 20 Oklahoma — 20 entries2 institutions seated here LA 16 Louisiana — 16 entries1 institution seated here MS 19 Mississippi — 19 entries1 institution seated here AL 16 Alabama — 16 entries1 institution seated here GA 40 Georgia — 40 entries1 institution seated here HI 1 Hawaii — 1 entry TX 46 Texas — 46 entries1 institution seated here FL 39 Florida — 39 entries1 institution seated here
Territories PR 2 Puerto Rico — 2 entries GU VI AS MP
Entries none 1–2 3–5 6–10 11–15 16–24 25+

Counts measure what the archive has recorded, not what has occurred. A state high on this diagram may be one where conduct is well covered rather than more common; a state with nothing recorded has not been cleared, only not documented here. The full figures are in the list below, which is also this diagram's text equivalent.

Federal

States and territories

Listed in full, including those with nothing on the record. An absence is itself a fact about the archive; a row that is simply missing would not say whether the place was checked.

Private actors

Conduct by a body no government's authority covers — a contractor, a company, a private institution — recorded here because the archive tracks the act, not only the office.