JTDL: Federal court record refund; AI bias bounty + New jobs
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News
Federal court records users could see $100 million in refunds. (Politico) (h/t Jeff Cox)
Ring cameras are going to get more people killed. (Motherboard)
A bias bounty for AI will help catch unfair algorithms faster. (MIT Tech Review)
San Diego will vote on predictive analytics to curb homelessness. (Times of San Diego)
Fairfax County, Virginia now has a bond data portal. (VA) (h/t Jason Melchi)
What do law librarians want from research vendors? (LegalTechHub) (h/t Natalie Knowlton)
Why does every tech company want to “democratize” something? (Mother Jones)
Events
The Symposium on Computer Science and Law is Nov. 1-2. (ACM)
Computation Law on Edge is Nov. 3-4. (CLE)
Legal Tech Essentials 2022, a lecture series at Bucerius Law School, starts Nov. 11. (LTE) *h/t Shaun Jamison)
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)
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)
Aspen Institute needs a deputy director for its tech equity work. (AI)
The Berkeley Institute for Data Science needs a data architect. (BIDS) (h/t Julie Ciccolini)
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)
Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett needs a legislative assistant covering judiciary and tech issues, among others. (SP)
Consumer Reports is hiring for a number of positions. (CR)
Data and Society is hiring for various roles. (DS)
The Day One Project has numerous openings. (D1P)
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)
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)
LegalServer needs an implementation specialist. (LS) (h/t Michael Hofrichter)
Legal Services of Northern California need an IT manager. (LSNC) (h/t Amy Williams)
[New] Maastricht University needs a computational law prof. (MU)
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)
[New] 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)
Pathfinders for Justice needs a senior researcher. (PfJ) (h/t Themba Mahleka)
The Philly District Attorney's Office is looking to fill a number of roles, including for a DB admin. (PDAO) (h/t Oren Gur)
The Policing Project needs a fellow. (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’s Youth Policy Lab needs a juvenile justice data fellow. (YPL) (h/t Andrea Plevek)
Upsolve, the bankruptcy platform, is hiring for multiple roles. (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)
Village Capital needs mentors for its Innovation of Justice Tech initiative. (VC) (h/t Edna Samron)
[New] Yale ISP’s Data (re)Makes the World conference is looking for paper submissions) (YISP)
