SEC Enforcement Tracker — Litigation, Proceedings & AAER

SEC Enforcement Tracker pulls enforcement actions straight from the official U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission website — Litigation Releases (civil court actions), Administrative Proceedings (in-house orders), and Accounting & Auditing Enforcement Releases (AAER) — as clean, structured JSON. One feed for regulatory intelligence, compliance monitoring, securities-law research, and financial journalism.

Because it runs on the Apify platform you get scheduling (daily enforcement alerts), API access, webhooks, and one-click export to JSON, CSV, or Excel — no API key, no login, no proxies needed.

What does SEC Enforcement Tracker do?

It reads the SEC's official enforcement listings and returns each release as a flat JSON row: release type, release number, date, the defendants/respondents named, file number, comment deadlines, and links to the underlying complaint, order, or judgment documents. You can filter by release type, defendant/respondent name, and date range, optionally pull the full release text, and cap results to control cost.

The three feeds it covers:

• Litigation Releases — the SEC's civil actions filed in federal court (fraud, insider trading, Ponzi schemes, FCPA, crypto, etc.), with links to the filed complaint and final judgments.
• Administrative Proceedings — orders issued through the SEC's own administrative process, with file numbers, comment deadlines and distribution plans.
• Accounting & Auditing Enforcement Releases (AAER) — the subset of actions involving financial reporting, auditing and accountant/auditor misconduct.

Why use SEC Enforcement Tracker?

• Regulatory & compliance monitoring — track every new enforcement action against companies, executives, advisers, auditors or funds in your coverage universe.
• Securities-litigation intelligence — surface defendants, case captions and complaint documents the moment a release is published; feed your case database or litigation-funding pipeline.
• Due diligence & KYC — screen a company or individual against the SEC's enforcement history by name.
• Journalism & research — build datasets of SEC enforcement activity over time, by type, defendant or topic.
• Enforcement alerts on autopilot — schedule a daily run filtered to your keywords and pipe results to Slack, email, a CRM, or an LLM via Make / Zapier / n8n.

How to use SEC Enforcement Tracker

1. Click Try for free.
2. Pick Release types — leave empty for all three, or choose Litigation Releases / Administrative Proceedings / AAER.
3. Optionally add a Keyword (a defendant or company name), and a Date range.
4. Turn on Include full release text if you need the full body and document links.
5. Set Max results to control cost, click Start, then download the dataset or wire it into your pipeline.

Input

Field	Description
Release types	Litigation Releases, Administrative Proceedings, AAER — empty = all three
Keyword	Case-insensitive match on defendant/respondent names + release/file numbers
Date range	Last 24h / 7d / 30d / 90d / 365d / YTD / All time / Custom
Max results	Hard cap on rows across all types (0 = unlimited)
Include full release text	Fetch each detail page for full body, summary and document links (slower)
Advanced — custom User-Agent	Override the default SEC.gov User-Agent (optional)

Output

Each row looks like this (you can download the dataset as JSON, HTML, CSV, or Excel):

{
  "releaseType": "litigation_release",
  "releaseTypeLabel": "Litigation Release",
  "releaseNumber": "LR-26568",
  "date": "2026-06-16",
  "dateTime": "2026-06-16T14:02:03Z",
  "respondents": "Bruce Cameron Conway",
  "fileNumber": null,
  "commentsDue": null,
  "seeAlso": "Consent of Defendant, Final Judgment",
  "detailUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/enforcement-litigation/litigation-releases/lr-26568",
  "documentUrls": [
    "https://www.sec.gov/files/litigation/litreleases/2026/cons26568.pdf",
    "https://www.sec.gov/files/litigation/litreleases/2026/judg26568.pdf"
  ],
  "source": "SEC Enforcement & Litigation (public domain, sec.gov)",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-06-18T17:45:07.179Z"
}

fileNumber and commentsDue are populated for administrative proceedings (they don't exist for litigation releases, so they're null there). With Include full release text on, rows also carry summary and fullText.

Data table

Field	Description
releaseType / releaseTypeLabel	litigation_release, administrative_proceeding, or aaer
releaseNumber	SEC release number (e.g. LR-26568, 34-105730, AAER-4593)
date / dateTime	Publication date (YYYY-MM-DD) and full ISO timestamp
respondents	Defendants / respondents named in the release
fileNumber	SEC file number (administrative proceedings, e.g. 3-22327)
commentsDue	Comment deadline, when applicable
seeAlso	"See also" label(s) on the release (e.g. consent, final judgment)
detailUrl	Link to the release detail page (HTML) or document (PDF)
documentUrls	All linked case documents — complaints, orders, judgments (PDF). Empty if none
summary / fullText	Body text + summary (only with Include full release text)

How much does it cost to scrape SEC enforcement actions?

The actor reads free, public government web pages, so runs are fast and cheap — a typical filtered run of a few hundred releases costs a small fraction of a compute unit. Leaving Include full release text off keeps runs lean (one request per page of ~100 releases). Turning it on adds one request per release, so use a tight Date range or Max results to control cost. The free tier is enough to evaluate the actor and run small daily alerts.

Tips & advanced options

• Daily enforcement alerts: schedule a run with Date range = Last 24 hours and your keyword filters.
• Screen a company/person: set a wide date range (e.g. All time) and a Keyword with the name — but raise Max results, since keyword filtering scans the archive newest-first.
• Keep it lean: leave Include full release text off unless you need the body — it makes runs slower and larger.
• Combine feeds: pair with our SEC EDGAR Financials actor to link enforcement targets to their filings for a full "SEC intelligence" picture.

FAQ, disclaimers & support

• Is this legal? The actor only retrieves publicly available pages from the SEC's official website. U.S. government works (including SEC enforcement releases) are in the public domain. This actor and its author are not affiliated with or endorsed by the SEC.
• Personal data: defendant/respondent names are part of public enforcement records published by the SEC itself. Use them in compliance with applicable laws for legitimate research, compliance, journalism and due-diligence purposes.
• Accuracy: data mirrors what the SEC publishes; always confirm against the linked official release before relying on it for legal or investment decisions.
• Limitations: the SEC list view has no working free-text search, so keyword filtering is applied client-side over the selected date range. Full text is available only for HTML detail pages; some releases link directly to a PDF (captured as documentUrl).
• Support & custom work: found a bug or need an extra field or source (FTC, DOJ, state regulators)? Open an issue on the Issues tab — feedback and custom-solution requests are welcome.

Changelog

0.1 (2026-06-18)

• Initial release: Litigation Releases, Administrative Proceedings and AAER feeds; release-type/keyword/date filters; optional full-text enrichment; defendants, release/file numbers and document links.
• Consolidated all case-document links into a single documentUrls array (populated across every release type) and cleaned up the output schema.

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