Fiscalía (SPOA)

The Fiscalía General de la Nación investigates and prosecutes crime in Colombia. Every complaint or report it receives becomes a noticia criminal in the SPOA (Sistema Penal Oral Acusatorio) with a 21-digit number that the parties use to follow the case: the municipality (5 digits, DANE), the receiving entity (2), the receiving unit (5), the year (4) and a sequence (5). Send that number and get the case as the Fiscalía publishes it: where it stands, which office has it, the offences under investigation and its non-reserved actions. POST /co/fiscalia/case/v1 Live Returns a criminal case by its noticia criminal number.

Field	Type	Notes
`registration_number`	string	Required. The 21-digit noticia criminal number, e.g. `110016000050202154481`.

curl https://api.croma.run/co/fiscalia/case/v1 \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $CROMA_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "registration_number": "110016000050202154481" }'

Field	Notes
`found`	`true` when the Fiscalía has a case with this number. `false` is a normal `200`, not a `404`; every other field is then `null` or empty.
`case_id`	The Fiscalía’s internal id for the case.
`restricted`	`true` for a case under Ley 1098 de 2006 (children and adolescents). The Fiscalía does not publish these, so only `law` and `law_code` are filled in.
`status`, `status_code`, `status_reason`	`ACTIVO` or `INACTIVO`, its numeric code (`1`, `4`), and why an inactive case was closed, e.g. `Archivo por conducta atipica art.79 c.p.p`.
`stage`, `stage_code`	The procedural stage, e.g. `INDAGACIÓN` or `INVESTIGACIÓN`, and its numeric code.
`law`, `law_code`	The procedural law that applies, e.g. `Ley 906`, and its numeric code.
`reserved`	The Fiscalía’s own reserved marker on the case.
`incident_at`, `incident_department`, `incident_municipality`	When and where the facts took place. `incident_at` is ISO 8601 in Colombian time.
`assigned_office`	`{ name, unit, directorate, assigned_date, department, municipality, address, phone, email }`: the prosecutor’s office handling the case, its unit and regional directorate, and how to reach it.
`crimes`	`{ name, article, grade, status, flag }[]`. `name` as recorded, e.g. `FALSEDAD EN DOCUMENTO PRIVADO. ART. 289 C.P.`; `article` is its Código Penal article (`289`); `grade` is e.g. `AGRAVADO`, or `null` when none is recorded; `status` is the offence’s status in the case, e.g. `ACTIVO`; `flag` is a `SI` / `NO` marker the Fiscalía records on each offence, published as is.
`actions`	`{ action_date, action_type }[]`: the case’s non-reserved actions, newest first.
`actions_truncated`	`true` when the Fiscalía publishes only part of a long history; the oldest actions are then missing.
`last_action`	`{ action_type, action_code, occurred_at, recorded_at }` for the latest action, with its time of day, or `null`.
`joined`, `joined_to`, `joined_to_case_id`	Whether the case was joined to another (conexidad), and that case’s number and internal id.

Cases under Ley 1098 de 2006 (the Código de la Infancia y la Adolescencia) are not published by the Fiscalía. They answer found: true and restricted: true, with no other details.

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