JTDL: Driverless cars as police surveillance; Cyber war crimes + New events
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News
How a race-based medical formula is keeping some Black men in prison. (New York Times)
Child abuse registries punish unsuspecting parents of color. (Buzzfeed)
A settlement ensures that Clearview AI complies with Illinois’ biometric privacy law. (ACLU)
American Dragnet: Data-driven deportation. (Georgetown) Thomson Reuters will review its contracts, including for a database used to track immigrants. (Washington Post)
San Francisco police are using driverless cars as mobile surveillance cameras. (Motherboard)
The case for war crimes charges against Russian hackers. (Wired)
How cellphones transformed life at a women’s prison in Argentina. (Rest of World)
A data deep dive looks at Covid, discrimination, and pretrial in Baltimore. (SSRN) It even has its own GitHub page. (GitHub) (h/t Colin Starger)
A new book debunks junk science in the American criminal justice system. (Kirkus) A state judge in New Jersey called out the junk science behind “shaken baby syndrome”. (NJ Courts)
Data-driven public defense policy. (Public Defenseless)
The need for improved federal civil rights data collection. (Leadership Conference)
The pro bono platform Paladin raised a $8 million Series A. (Biz Journals)
A big think about big data in courts. (NCSC)
There’s a new police data transparency index. (Vera)
Carl Malamud on three decades of freeing the law. (Law Sites)
Events
The tech that comes next: How changemakers, philanthropists, and technologists can build an equitable world at the Harvard Berkman Klein Center is May 18. (BKC)
Conversation on the Datafied State at Data & Society is May 25. (D&S)
RightsCon is June 6-10. (RC)
The Race to Regulate AI at the University of Oxford is June 30. (UOx)
Jobs & Opportunities
ACLU needs an associate software engineer. (ACLU)
Amnesty International Tech has multiple positions. (AIT) (h/t Damini Satija)
Access to Justice Tech Fellows opened summer placement positions for law students. (ATJ)
Bay Area Legal Services (Florida) needs a legal tech and digital project manager. (BALS)
Boundless has numerous openings. (B) (h/t Chase Hertel)
Carnegie Melon University needs an ED for its tech and society center. (CMU)
Center for Democracy and Technology has multiple open positions. (CDT) (h/t Alex Givens)
Center for Policing Equity needs a VP of tech and data (an engineer). (CPE)
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 has numerous openings. (DS)
The Day One Project has numerous openings. (D1P)
The Electronic Frontier Foundation needs a director of institutional support. (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 Berkman Klein Center needs a coordinator. (BKC)
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)
Paladin has multiple openings. (P) (h/t Felicity Conrad)
[New] The Philly District Attorney's Office is looking to fill a number of roles, including for a dev. (PDAO)
The Policing Project has multiple openings. (PP) (h/t Kaylynn Lopez)
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 strategic partnerships lead. (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)
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)
The US General Services Administration needs a tech lawyer. (GSA)
Vera has numerous openings for data scientist and IT roles. (Vera)