JTDL: Drones detect active shooters; Court text reminder bill in CO + New jobs
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News
Court text reminders would become automatic under proposed Colorado law. (Newsline)
A startup claiming to enable drones to detect and disrupt active shooters raised $3 million. (Business Insider)
Potential data sources for tracking informal evictions. (New America)
The Oregon Office of Public Defense Services has data deficiencies that prevent the agency from providing oversight and needs to adopt centralized data collection. (ABA Standing Committee on Legal Aid and Indigent Defense)
San Francisco’s mayor is trying to weaken the city’s surveillance law. (SF Chronicle)
Identifying and cataloguing novel psychoactive substances. (National Institutes of Justice)
The UK government is starting a PR blitz against end-to-end encryption. (Rolling Stone) Meanwhile, documents from the January 6 prosecutions show the FBI can work around encryption with no problem. (TechDirt)
Israeli police used spyware to hack its own citizens. (NPR)
Events
Automating the Administrative State, a Duke Law Symposium, is Feb. 12. (DL)
RightsCon is June 6-10. (RC)
Jobs & Opportunities
Access to Justice Tech Fellows’ science fiction writing contest for law students is accepting entries. (A2JTF)
American Academy of Arts & Sciences needs a program officer for civil justice. (AAAS)
[New] 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)
Bryter needs a legal solutions engineer. (B) (h/t Adam Ziegler)
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)
[New] The Criminal Justice Administrative Records System at the University of Michigan is hiring. (CJARS)
Data & Society needs a director of research (DS)
Duke Law School’s Wilson Center for Science and Justice needs a policy director. (WCSJ)
The Day One Project has numerous openings. (D1P)
[New] The Electronic Frontier Foundation has multiple openings. (EFF)
Free Law Project needs a researcher. (FLP)
Ford Foundation is looking for technology fellows. (FF)
Georgetown Law needs a teaching fellow for its Communications & Technology Law Clinic. (GU)
Georgetown Law needs an ED for its Institute for Tech Law and Policy. (GU)
Harvard’s Library Innovation Lab needs a dev. (LIL)
Honest Jobs needs a VP of marketing and alliances. (HJ) (h/t Brian Howe)
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)
Justice Innovation Lab needs data fellows. (JIL)
[New] 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)
Measures for Justice has multiple positions open. (M4J)
[New] The National Center for State Courts needs court consultants. (NCSC)
The National Public Defense conference on virtual courts is looking for proposals. (NPD)
Northeastern University needs a information justice prof. (NEU)
Paladin has multiple openings. (P) (h/t Felicity Conrad)
Pathfinders for Justice announced the Young Justice Leaders initiative. (PfJ)
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)
ProBonoNet needs a product manager. (PBN)
SimpleCitizen, an immigration tech company, has engineering, product and sales roles. (SC) (h/t Eleni Manis)
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)
Texas A&M needs a dev for a public defense data portal project. (TAM)
Theory and Principle, a legal software development boutique, needs a PM. (T&P)
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 Urban Institute and Microsoft have grants for US nonprofit organizations using data and technology for criminal justice reform. (U) (h/t Evelyn McCoy)
Vera needs an innovation senior associate. (Vera)
We Robot has a call out for papers. (WR)
Yale’s Internet Society Project is accepting applications for its fellowship. (ISP)