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Editor’s Note

Hi Everyone,

A belated Happy New Years to you! Thanks for your patience as I pushed through a busy few months. I’m happy to say we’re back for the rest of winter and spring before the newsletter’s summer hiatus.

A couple of quick notes: Court applications are open for the Judicial Innovation Fellowship. We’re excited to have already received project proposals from around the US. We will start our first round reviews on February 13, so if you, or anyone you know, wants to get in an application, that’s a good date to aim for.

Our info session for people interested in becoming Judicial Innovation Fellows is on February 28. I’ve also added an FAQ to help interested candidates understand the opportunity better. Please don’t hesitate to reach out with further questions. We’re very excited about the hundreds of signups we already have. It’s encouraging to see so many people interested in working on hard problems impacting our nation’s most vulnerable.

As always, please forward any research, opportunities, or events from your neck of the woods. The newsletter is always better with your contributions.

-Jason

News

I had a chance to speak about the Judicial Innovation Fellowship and ethical justice tech on a couple of podcasts. (Talk Justice) (Public Defenseless)

Evolving Education: Three recently launched legal education programs. (Law.com)

Using Schema.org to help people find legal aid. (Medium)

Police surveillance firms are just data brokers. (The Appeal)

A federal judge ruled that a South Carolina ban on data scraping could violate the First Amendment. (ACLU) (h/t Tanina Rostain)

DoNotPay chickens out on its courtroom AI chatbot stunt. (Verge) The product also received a brutal teardown, which seems to have led to a shuttering of certain features. (Twitter) (h/t Keith Porcaro)

Meet the spy tech companies helping landlords evict people. (Vice)

The predatory prison phone call industry is finally about to be fixed. (Verge)

An AI tool used to spot child abuse allegedly targets parents with disabilities. (Ars Technica)

Illinois’ Department of Corrections has a new data indicator tool. (IDOC) (h/t Jonathan Kulick)

Texas courts may get money to replace its legacy data systems. (January Advisors) (h/t Elizabeth Grossman)

Terms of service and Fourth Amendment rights. (SSRN)

Punitive surveillance. (Virginia Law Review)

Algorithms and economic justice: A taxonomy of harms and a path forward for the Federal Trade Commission. (Yale Journal of Law & Tech)

The law of AI for good. (San Diego Legal Studies) (h/t Aonghus Kelly)

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Events

The Legal design Roundtable is February 17. (UCL)

The Judicial Innovation Fellows Program’s information session for technologists and designers is Feb. 28. (JIF)

The Privacy Law Scholars Conference is June 1-2. (PLSC)

Jobs & Opportunities

All Tech is Human is hiring a program associate. (ATIH)

[New] Center for Democracy and Technology has multiple open positions. (CDT) (h/t Alex Givens)

Data and Society is hiring for various roles. (DS)

eyeWitness to Atrocities needs an ED. (eWA)

Just Tech has numerous openings. (JT) (h/t Legal Tech Jobs)

The Justice Tech Association needs an intern. (JTA) (h/t Maya Markovich)

JusticeText needs a biz dev lead. (JT) (h/t Devshi Mehrotra)

Kapor Center is taking applicants for its racial equity in tech policy accelerator. (KC) (h/t Ashwin Ramaswami)

New America’s Open Technology Institute needs a policy counsel. (NA)

New America’s New Practice Lab needs a product director. (NA)

Paladin has multiple openings. (P) (h/t Kristin Sonday)

[New] The Philly District Attorney's Office is looking to fill a number of roles, including for a DB admin and content interns. (PDAO) (h/t Oren Gur)

The Policing Project is hiring fellows. (PP) (h/t Kaylynn Lopez)

Pro Bono Net needs a UX designer. (PBN) (h/t Sam Harden)

SimpleCitizen, an immigration tech company, has engineering, product and sales roles. (SC) (h/t Eleni Manis)

TechCongress is recruiting its next innovation cohort. (TC)

[New] Theory and Principle, a legal software development boutique, is hiring. (T&P)

Upsolve, the bankruptcy platform, needs an engineer. (U)

[New] US Attorney's Office for DC is looking for a data analyst intern. (USA) (h/t Connor Concannon) 

US Senator Jeane Shaheen needs counsel to help with judiciary and cybersecurity, among other issues. (JS)