JTDL: Faulty alerts harangue people on release; How to seal eviction records + New events
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News
Internal documents show how close the FBI came to deploying spyware. (New York Times)
The San Francisco mayor is accused of wallpapering over privacy concerns about police access to live surveillance cameras. (Motherboard)
In Chicago, those on house arrest are bombarded with texts from the sheriff’s contractor. (Reader)
A Fourth Amendment framework to persistent surveillance technologies. (Alabama Law Review)
A guide to sealing eviction records. (Upturn)
Events
JusticeTech: How Technology is Revolutionizing Access to Justice at Northwestern is Nov 21. (NW)
The Civil Justice Data Commons at Georgetown Law launches Nov. 30. (CJDC)
Innovations in Justice Tech Venture Forum SF is Dec. 8. (IJT)
The Privacy Law Scholars Conference is June 1-2. (PLSC)
Jobs & Opportunities
ACLU needs privacy and data governance interns. (ACLU) (h/t Rebecca Williams)
ACLU NorCal needs a staff attorney for its tech and civil liberties division. (ACLU) (h/t Ellen)
[New] American Bar Foundation’s Access to Justice Scholars is accepting applications. (ABF)
Amnesty International needs a researcher focused on tech an inequality. (AI) (h/t Bharati Narumanchi)
All Tech is Human is hiring a program associate. (ATIH)
BetaNYC is hiring a civic innovation lab director. (BNYC)
Boundless has numerous openings. (B) (h/t Chase Hertel)
Brookings needs a technology coordinator for it’s AI and emerging tech work. (BI)
Center for Democracy and Technology has multiple open positions. (CDT) (h/t Alex Givens)
Color of Change needs a director of tech and media justice. (CoC) (h/t Archana Ahlawat)
Data and Society is hiring for various roles. (DS)
The Day One Project has numerous openings. (D1P)
eyeWitness to Atrocities needs an ED. (eWA)
[New] The Free Law Project needs a development director. (FLP)
FreeWorld, a post-incarceration economic support organization, has multiple roles open. (FW) (h/t Jason Wang)
The German Marshall Fund of the US needs a research assistant. (GMF) (h/t Tony Franquiz)
[New] Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center needs fellows. (BKC)
[New] Harvard’s Center for Research on Computation and Society needs post docs. (CRCS)
Internet Society has early-career fellowships. (IS)
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] The Lab @ DC needs social scientists. (L@DC)
LegalServer needs an implementation specialist. (LS) (h/t Michael Hofrichter)
Legal Services of Northern California need an IT manager. (LSNC) (h/t Amy Williams)
Maastricht University needs a computational law prof. (MU)
[New] The Massachusetts Law Reform Initiative needs a digital project manager. (MLRI) (h/t Rochelle Hahn)
Measures for Justice has multiple positions open. (M4J)
Mozilla’s Data Futures Lab is taking applicants. (DFL)
The National Center for State Courts’ A2J team needs court management consultants. (NCSC) (h/t Zach Zarnow)
Neighborhood Defender Services is hiring an access to justice fellow focused on policing, indigent defense, and data. (NDS)
New America’s Open Technology Institute needs a policy counsel. (NA)
New America’s New Practice Lab needs a product director. (NA)
Northeastern University needs an AI and social justice prof. (NU)
The Omidyar Network needs principals for their Responsible Tech initiative. (ON)
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 DB admin. (PDAO) (h/t Oren Gur)
[New] The Policing Project is hiring for multiple positions. (PP) (h/t Kaylynn Lopez)
Stanford’s Digital Civil Society Lab needs practitioner fellows. (DCSL)
The Shelby County DA needs a chief data officer, among other hires. (SCDA) (h/t Connor Concannon)
SimpleCitizen, an immigration tech company, has engineering, product and sales roles. (SC) (h/t Eleni Manis)
Southern Methodist University’s Deason Criminal Justice Reform Center needs a research specialist. (SMU) (h/t Andrew Davies)
Syracuse University’s Autonomous Systems Policy Institute needs a director. (SU)
Theory and Principle, a legal software development boutique, is hiring. (T&P)
University of Arizona’s Innovation for Justice needs an academic programs officer. (i4J) (h/t Stacy Butler)
University of Denver’s Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System needs a director of legal services. (IAALS) (h/t Natalie Knowlton)
University of Michigan needs a professor of public policy focused on racial justice in science and technology policy. (UM)
[New] University of Michigan needs an assistant professor of urban data and tech. (UM)
[New] University of Portland’s Evicted in Oregon program needs researchers. (UP) (h/t Matthew J. Hall)
Upsolve, the bankruptcy platform, needs an engineer. (US)
Urban Institute and Microsoft are accepting grant applications for projects using data to improve front-end criminal justice reform. (UI) (h/t Elizabeth Grossman)
The US Department of Justice needs a lead evaluator for the Crime Solutions Impact program. (DOJ)
Village Capital needs mentors for its Innovation of Justice Tech initiative. (VC) (h/t Edna Samron)
Yale ISP’s Data (re)Makes the World conference is looking for paper submissions) (YISP)
