JTDL: How to run the Judicial Innovation Fellowship; DoNotPay drama + New jobs
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Editor’s Note
For the last seven months, I undertook the design of the Judicial Innovation Fellowship. I had two goals: 1. Learn how to run a government fellowship program, and 2. Figure out what types of projects prove our value and improve justice. While the document is meant to help us run the program, we decided to publish it to be transparent about what we are trying to do and because we think it is useful to more than just us.
So, I present to you the Judicial Innovation Fellowship Roadmap.
For the court and access to justice community, we hope that this document adds to literature about challenges in court technology, as well as defines project areas with the potential for replicable or scalable solutions that advance the cause of justice. For those in the government fellowship world, we hope this document can be useful when it comes to program administration. While there are at least a dozen tech-in-gov fellowships now, there is no toolkit on how to start and operate these organizations. To be clear, this document is not an org-in-a-box, but I do hope it is a step toward codifying the knowledge that is out there from people doing this work.
As always, I am interested in what you think. Please feel free to respond to this email or on Twitter. Have a great week.
Best,
Jason
News
Dispatchers for 911 are being inundated with false, automated distress calls from Apple devices owned by skiers who are very much alive. (New York Times)
The Colorado Supreme Court will hear a challenge to a reverse keyword warrant served to Google. (Tech Dirt)
Twitter suspended 400,000 accounts for child abuse content but only reported 8,000 to police. (Ars Technica)
The heat on DoNotPay continues. (Twitter) A piece raising questions about DNP from five years ago was just published. (Tech Dirt) On the DNP and AI lawyer experiment. (Legal Service Corporation) DNP founder tries to defend himself against various allegations. (LawSites)
Technology’s role in making traffic stops copless. (Bloomberg)
Customs and Border Patrol’s immigration app doesn’t recognize black faces. (Border Chronicle)
Judges and academics are in a fresh row over research claiming Wikipedia is used to write judgments. (Irish Times)
A judge gave its blessing to the FBI’s January 6th geofence warrant. (Tech Dirt)
Meet the startup founder connecting arrestees to free legal support. (Forbes)
Litigating AI. (Slaw) (h/t Jesse Beatson)
Events
The HiiL Justice Accelerator Demo Day is Feb. 15. (HiiL) (h/t Deyana Abououbeid)
The Future of Privacy Forum is hosting its Policy Papers for Policymakers Awards Feb. 16. (FPF) (h/t Lama Mohammed)
McGill's Centre for Media, Technology & Democracy hosts Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence on Feb. 16. (CMTD)
The Legal Design Roundtable is Feb. 17. (UCL)
Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy’s Mitigating Technology Abuse in Intimate Partner Violence and Encrypted Messaging is Feb. 22. (PU)
The Judicial Innovation Fellows Program’s information session for technologists and designers is Feb. 28. (JIF)
The Code for America Summit is May 16-17. (CfA)
The Privacy Law Scholars Conference is June 1-2. (PLSC)
RightsCon is June 5-8. (RC)
Jobs & Opportunities
All Tech is Human is hiring a program associate. (ATIH)
Center for Democracy and Technology has multiple open positions. (CDT) (h/t Alex Givens)
[New] The Cook County (IL) Public Defender needs a chief data officer. (CCPD) (h/t Sarah Glassmeyer)
Data and Society is hiring for various roles. (DS)
[New] Duke Law’s Wilson Center for Science and Justice needs a data scientist. (DL)
[New] Georgetown Law’s Center for Tech Law & Policy is hiring fellows. (GU)
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)
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)
[New] 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)
[New] Stanford Law School needs a justice innovation lead. (SLS)
[New] Surveillance Resistance Lab needs a senior research fellow. (SRL) (h/t Rebecca Williams)
TechCongress is recruiting its next innovation cohort. (TC)
Theory and Principle, a legal software development boutique, is hiring. (T&P)
Upsolve, the bankruptcy platform, needs an engineer. (U)
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)
