New York State Environmental Hearing Dockets Since 2005

Docket records from the New York State Office of Hearings and Mediation Services track cases open on or after January 1, 2005. The database contains cases referred for public hearings or other action by an administrative law judge, culminating in a decision by the Commissioner of the Department of Environmental Conservation. It is maintained by the State of New York.

Use Cases

• Analyze case referral patterns over time using the docket opening date field.
• Study the duration of administrative proceedings by calculating the time between case referral and commissioner decision dates.
• Identify common types of environmental violations or disputes using case description or category fields.
• Track the workload and outcomes of administrative law judges based on assigned judge and final decision columns.

Strengths

• Cases tracked from January 1, 2005, providing a multi-decade timeline.
• Data is available in multiple structured formats including CSV, XML, RDF, and JSON.

Limitations

• The total number of cases (rows) and specific data fields (columns) are unknown.
• Data freshness is uncertain as the last platform update date may not reflect actual record updates.

Provenance

Source

State of New York, Office of Hearings and Mediation Services (OHMS).

Collection Method

Operational records from the Docket Management System database.

Time Range

Beginning January 1, 2005.

Freshness

Last platform update was 2026-04-04, but actual data recency is unknown.

Geography

New York State.