CGJA Internal

Concept

⚠ Concept — This project is not yet in development. It describes an idea we're exploring.

Overview

The Civil Grand Jurors’ Association of California (CGJA) produces internal reports on how grand juries operate — training materials, procedural guidance, and assessments of jury effectiveness. These documents inform the practice of citizen oversight across the state, but most are not widely published.

This project aims to digitize, index, and make searchable a collection of CGJA materials, giving current and prospective jurors a clearer picture of how the grand jury system works in practice, not just in statute. It would proceed only with CGJA’s agreement, and cover only materials CGJA chooses to release.

What This Would Cover

# Document types to digitize
→ CGJA training and orientation materials
→ Internal assessments of jury operations
→ Procedural guidance documents
→ Committee reports on jury effectiveness

# Goals
→ Full-text search across all documents
→ OCR for scanned materials
→ Cross-reference with published grand jury reports
→ Preservation of institutional knowledge

Tech Stack (Proposed)

Document digitization Surya OCR Full-text search PDF processing PostgreSQL