> This is the Markdown form of https://fapd.info/sources/dea-press.html. Content is licensed CC BY 4.0 > (credit "FAPD — Free Agentic Publication Digester"); quoted official government > text is public domain. For factual claims, cite the official source each item > links to. Canonical source: `sources/registry.yaml (id: dea-press)` in https://github.com/davidkarnowski/free-agentic-publication-digester. # DEA Press Releases unavailable · Executive · Tier 2 · HTML index · Department of Justice Official site: https://www.dea.gov/press-releases · All sources: [sources.md](../sources.md) ## What this source is The Drug Enforcement Administration, within the Justice Department, enforces federal controlled-substances law. Its press-release index carries enforcement operations, drug-scheduling actions, and public-safety alerts, typically several items per week. **Model-written orientation** The Drug Enforcement Administration is the Justice Department's principal agency for enforcing federal controlled-substances law. The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is a bureau of the Department of Justice and is the primary federal agency responsible for enforcing the Controlled Substances Act and related laws regarding illegal drugs, chemical precursors, and the diversion of controlled medications. The DEA operates through a network of field divisions in major cities and maintains offices in foreign countries, investigating drug trafficking organizations, manufacturing operations, and distribution networks. The DEA's functions include investigating federal drug crimes, regulating the legal manufacture and distribution of controlled substances through a licensing system, preventing the diversion of chemical precursors used to manufacture illegal drugs, providing training and support to state and local law enforcement agencies, and conducting international drug control efforts. The agency also maintains the drug scheduling system, under which new drugs or drug analogs are evaluated and placed into one of five schedules based on their abuse potential and medical utility, and issues alerts on emerging drug threats. DEA press releases typically cover major drug trafficking investigations and indictments, drug seizures, dismantling of clandestine laboratories, product recalls of controlled medications, drug-scheduling actions, law enforcement operations, training initiatives, and public alerts on dangerous drugs or products. The releases document the agency's enforcement activities and policy actions. This source is currently unavailable: automated access to the agency's press-release website is blocked by security measures. Public releases are available through the agency's GovDelivery email subscription service, which operates under explicit consent-based access policies. _Model-written orientation, generated 2026-08-05 by haiku, prompt version 1. It may draw on general knowledge of public institutions and is not official-record content._ ## Identity and registry record | Field | Value | |---|---| | Registry id | `dea-press` | | Agency / parent organization | Department of Justice | | Branch | executive | | Type | HTML index | | Status | unavailable | | Tier | 2 | | URL (home) | https://www.dea.gov/press-releases | | Registered | 2026-07-26 | | Registry notes | Probed 2026-07-26: HTTP 403 to honestly-identified automated client (WAF). Recorded, not evaded. Research 2026-07-29: confirmed live GovDelivery subscription account (USDOJDEA) — best consent-based path pending the email-ingestion adapter (docs/access-alternatives-research-2026-07-29.md). Email sibling registered 2026-07-29: dea-email (GUIDE §3 email class; the web status here is unchanged). | ## How we ingest it | Term | Description | |---|---| | Channel | HTML index | | Method | HTML index diff via AgencyClient (pending viability check) | | Request budget | the agency class: at most 3,000 requests per day shared across every agency web source, counted from the fetch log (failed requests count too) | | Politeness | robots.txt is honored as observed — including each host's crawl-delay, exactly — and every request identifies itself as fapd/0.1 (Free Agentic Publication Digester; +https://fapd.info/bot.html; contact: hustleyourcity@gmail.com); a refusal is recorded, never evaded | | Capture and hash | captured raw content is hashed (SHA-256) into the day's committed provenance manifest, hash-chained day to day (PROVENANCE.md) | ## Ingestion health Not ingested: the registry status of this source is unavailable. ## Ingestion statistics These figures describe this project's ingestion of this source — items we recorded and requests we made — and nothing else. They are not a measurement of the publisher. Not ingested: the registry status of this source is unavailable. Ingestion statistics are measured for active sources only. ### All time No requests to www.dea.gov are recorded in the request log. ### Last 30 days, day by day No requests and no items were recorded in the last 30 days, so there is nothing to chart.