JTDL: Criminal database has victims' DNA; auto-expungement in Utah + New jobs
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Editor’s Note
This Thursday, you will receive a second dispatch from me about the launch of my “40 Futures” project. This is an original speculative fiction project about the criminal justice system. Thursday’s email will explain everything.
Second, and unrelated to the 40 Futures project, the newsletter will be off the week of February 28.
Keep well,
Jason
News
San Francisco police put rape victims’ DNA into a database used to find criminals. (Ars)
How two-way texting keeps people out of jail. (Crime Report)
Electronic monitoring is on a dramatic rise and 94% see monitoring terminated for a technical violation. (UCLA)
Thousands of criminal records were automatically wiped under Utah’s “clean slate” law. (Salt Lake Tribune)
The American Bar Association says pretrial risk-assessment tools should only be used if they're transparent and unbiased. (ABA Journal)
Inside the NYPD’s surveillance machine. (Amnesty)
The settlement reached in the Baltimore spy plane case requires police to remove data collected by the program. (WBAL)
New Jersey will spend $7 million on gunshot detection technology. (GovTech)
The US is testing robot dogs to patrol the border. (Axios)
A genetic investigation technique used to find killers is being used to investigate illicit hauls of ivory and other animal parts. (New York Times)
There’s a new dashboard to visualize criminal cases in North Carolina. (UNC)
The St. Louis Circuit Court published pretrial detention data. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
There’s a legal tech-English dictionary. (Above the Law)
A UN committee is negotiating a new cybercrime treaty. (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
The myth of tech exceptionalism. (Noema) Connecting race to ethics related to technology: A call for critical tech ethics. (IEEE)
Events
The Social Science Research Council will launch the Just Tech research platform on March 1. (SSRC)
RightsCon is June 6-10. (RC)
Jobs & Opportunities
Access to Justice Tech Fellows’ science fiction writing contest for law students is accepting entries. (A2JTF)
ACLU Massachusetts needs a technology for liberty intern. (ACLUM)
American Academy of Arts & Sciences needs a program officer for civil justice. (AAAS)
[New] Amnesty International Tech needs a program manager. (AIT) (h/t Damini Satija)
Arlington County, VA’s states attorney needs a data and litigation support analyst. (ACSA) (h/t Oren Gur)
Boundless has numerous openings. (B) (h/t Chase Hertel)
California’s Committee on Revision of the Penal Code needs a staff attorney that’s good with data. (CRPC) (h/t Tom Nosewicz)
Center for Democracy and Technology has multiple open positions. (CDT) (h/t Alex Givens)
The Civil Beat Law Center needs a staff attorney. (CBLC) (h/t Brian Black)
Color of Change needs devs and PMs. (CoC) (h/t Archana Ahlawat)
The Congressional-Executive Commission on China needs staff for it’s technology-enhanced authoritarianism research. (CECC)
The Criminal Justice Administrative Records System at the University of Michigan is hiring. (CJARS)
Duke Law School’s Wilson Center for Science and Justice needs a policy director. (WCSJ)
The Day One Project has numerous openings. (D1P)
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has multiple openings. (EFF)
Ford Foundation is looking for technology fellows. (FF)
Georgetown’s Center for Privacy and Technology needs a senior associate. (GU) (h/t Samantha Simonsen)
Georgetown Law needs a teaching fellow for its Communications & Technology Law Clinic. (GU)
[New] Harvard’s Library Innovation Lab needs a technologist-in-residence. (LIL)
HeatSeek needs a program associate. (HS)
The International Conference on Anticipation has a call for papers. (ICA)
JustCity Memphis needs a data scientist. (JCM)
JustFix is hiring for multiple roles. (JF) (h/t Pinky Chan)
Just Tech has numerous openings. (JT) (h/t Legal Tech Jobs)
The Law Society of Alberta’s regulatory sandbox is taking applications. (LSA) (h/t Len Polsky)
The Law Society of Ontario’s regulatory sandbox is taking applications. (LSO) (h/t Will Morrison)
The UK’s Legal Education Fund needs a research principle. (LEF)
Measures for Justice has multiple positions open. (M4J)
The National Center for State Courts needs court consultants. (NCSC)
The National Registry of Exonerations needs an ED. (NRE) (h/t Amani Smathers)
The New York County District Attorney’s Office needs a technical product specialist. (DANY)
Northeastern University needs a information justice prof. (NEU)
Northwestern Law is launching the Journal des Refusés and accepting statements of interest. (JdR)
Paladin has multiple openings. (P) (h/t Felicity Conrad)
PEW seeks a freelancer for a lit review on research related to court time and costs, email your interest to the link. (PEW) (h/t Darcy White)
The Philly District Attorney's Office is looking to fill a number of roles, including for a dev. (PDAO)
[New] The Policing Project needs a legislative director. (PP) (h/t Kaylynn Lopez)
Princeton’s Center for Information and Technology Policy needs summer interns. (CITP)
ProBonoNet needs a product manager. (PBN)
SimpleCitizen, an immigration tech company, has engineering, product and sales roles. (SC) (h/t Eleni Manis)
Stand Together Ventures Lab needs an investment analyst. (STVL)
Stanford CodeX is looking for fellows. (SC)
Stanford RegLab needs fellows. (SRL) (h/t Christine Tsang)
Surveillance Technology Oversight Project has legal and policy openings (STOP) and an internship. (STOP). (h/t Eleni Manis)
[New] Systemic Justice is hiring for multiple roles. (SJ)
Theory and Principle, a legal software development boutique, needs a PM. (T&P)
[New] The University of North Carolina’s Criminal Justice Innovation Lab needs a research director. (UNC)
The University of San Francisco needs a data ethics fellow. (USF)
Upsolve, the bankruptcy platform, is hiring for multiple roles. (US)
Upturn needs a research assistant. (UT)
The US Digital Response needs a digital services program lead. (USDR)
Vera needs an innovation senior associate. (Vera)
We Robot has a call out for papers. (WR)
[New] Yale’s Internet Society Project needs an executive director. (ISP)