JTDL: Data brokers help ICE skirt law; Solving murder in the DMs + New Jobs
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News
The US Justice Department works to curb racial bias in its risk assessments. (NPR)
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement contracted with private data brokers to get around sanctuary laws. (Guardian) (h/t Brittany Suszan)
Police tech suppliers are hostile to transparency. (ComputerWeekly)
TurnSignl app seeks to provide real-time legal assistance and de-escalation during traffic stops. (ABA Journal)
The UK made court judgments accessible to all. (Uk.gov) (h/t Cori Zarek)
South Africa’s private surveillance machine is fueling a digital apartheid. (MIT Tech Review)
North Carolina put up a new criminal justice data portal. (Sylva Herald)
A murder solved in the DMs. (Cut)
Web scraping is legal, a US appeals court reaffirms. (TechCrunch)
Why it’s so damn hard to make AI fair and unbiased. (Vox)
Events
New America’s “Creating a Strong Public Interest Tech Project” is April 25. (NA)
A talk by Danielle Citron on cyber civil rights is May 5. (Pitt)
RightsCon is June 6-10. (RC)
Jobs & Opportunities
ACLU needs an associate software engineer. (ACLU)
Amnesty International Tech has multiple positions. (AIT) (h/t Damini Satija)
The Anti-Defamation League needs a assistant director of tech policy. (ADL)
Bay Area Legal Services (Florida) needs a legal tech and digital project manager. (BALS)
Boundless has numerous openings. (B) (h/t Chase Hertel)
Center for Democracy and Technology has multiple open positions. (CDT) (h/t Alex Givens)
Color of Change needs devs and PMs. (CoC) (h/t Archana Ahlawat)
The Criminal Justice Administrative Records System at the University of Michigan is looking for fellows. (CJARS)
Data & Society need a senior designer. (DS)
The Day One Project has numerous openings. (D1P)
[New] The Electronic Frontier Foundation needs a lawyer. (EFF)
Endless Frontier Fellowship is looking for fellows. (EFF)
Finequity needs a founding engineer. (h/t Briane Cornish) (FE)
Georgetown’s Center for Privacy and Technology needs a senior associate. (GU) (h/t Samantha Simonsen)
[New] Harvard’s Library Innovation Lab needs research assistants. (LIL)
HeatSeek needs a program associate. (HS)
The Hague Institute for Innovation of Law has multiple openings. (HiiL)
JustFix is hiring for multiple roles. (JF) (h/t Pinky Chan)
Just Tech has numerous openings. (JT) (h/t Legal Tech Jobs)
LawSites needs a part-time editorial assistant. (LS)
Measures for Justice has multiple positions open. (M4J)
MIT needs a postdoctoral associate focused on digital teaching simulations and AI coaching. (MIT)
The National Center for State Courts needs court consultants. (NCSC)
The National Freedom of Information Coalition invites research proposals focused on FoI and technology. (NFOIC) (h/t Brittany Suszan)
The New York County District Attorney’s Office needs a technical product specialist. (DANY)
Paladin has multiple openings. (P) (h/t Felicity Conrad)
The Philly District Attorney's Office is looking to fill a number of roles, including for a dev. (PDAO)
[New] The Policing Project has multiple openings. (PP) (h/t Kaylynn Lopez)
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 Law School needs a justice innovation lead. (SLS) (h/t Andrew Wichmann)
Stanford RegLab needs a research director. (SRL) (h/t Christine Tsang)
Surveillance Technology Oversight Project has openings. (STOP) (h/t Eleni Manis)
[New] Systemic Justice needs a comms director. (SJ) (h/t Keith Porcaro)
TechCongress needs a program operations manager. (TC)
Theory and Principle, a legal software development boutique, is hiring. (T&P)
Texas Indigent Defense Commission needs a data analyst. (TIDC)
The University of Helsinki Legal Tech Lab needs a doctoral researcher in automated systems and administrative legal frameworks. (UH)
The University of North Carolina’s Criminal Justice Innovation Lab needs a research director. (UNC)
Upsolve, the bankruptcy platform, is hiring for multiple roles. (US)
Urban Institute’s Justice Policy Center needs a principle research associate. (UI) (h/t Emily Tiry)
Vera has numerous openings for data scientist and IT roles. (Vera)