---
title: "Policy sources"
method: POST
path: "/api/locus_policy_sources"
tags: ["policy", "legislation", "sources", "read-only", "free", "free"]
---

# Policy sources

`POST /api/locus_policy_sources`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.locus.report`
- URL: `https://api.locus.report/api/locus_policy_sources`
- Auth: none required

Official policy sources for a place: state, county, and city legislatures, Legistar, code libraries, resolved legal geographies, live legislative fallback status, and ingested artifact count. Use before a policy brief, or to see which bodies and code libraries govern the place. Source list only: no legal advice, score, or brief. Direct flat-body route for this one free resource; no API key, payment, or catalog wrapper. Return only the cited bounded evidence described here; this route never produces a paid brief or full report.

## Request body

- object
  - `place` string, required: Required ZIP, address, city, or county to resolve to state/county/city legal geographies.

## Response `200`

Free cited evidence response.

- object

## Other responses

- `400`: Invalid request body.
- `429`: Rate limited.

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