OFAC Enforcement Data Publication

OFAC publishes civil enforcement actions on its website, and sanctionsai.dev compiles them into a searchable, analyzable dataset.

TL;DR

TL;DR: OFAC makes its civil enforcement actions public, and sanctionsai.dev gathers that data into a single searchable collection at /data/ofac-enforcement for analysis.

What OFAC publishes

The Office of Foreign Assets Control publishes civil enforcement actions and penalties on its website as a matter of public record. These notices describe the violating party, the conduct, the sanctions program at issue, and the penalty or settlement amount. Publication serves both transparency and deterrence, giving every regulated party a view of how enforcement is applied in practice.

Why structured data helps

Raw enforcement notices are spread across individual pages, which makes trend analysis difficult. A compiled dataset lets a compliance team search by program, penalty range, or violation type, and spot patterns, such as which industries or payment channels appear most often. That pattern recognition is harder when the source material is read one notice at a time. A searchable compilation turns scattered notices into a resource a team can filter and sort rather than read page by page.

Using enforcement data for agent payments

For teams building agent payment rails, enforcement history answers the question of what actually gets penalized. sanctionsai.dev compiles this data into a searchable dataset at /data/ofac-enforcement. The pattern is consistent: payments that moved to a listed party without screening are the cases that surface, which is why screening before payment is the first control to put in place. Teams use the data to benchmark their own controls against the failures OFAC actually penalizes.