JTDL: Judicial Innovation Fellowship; data criminalization + New jobs
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News
Myself and some exceptional colleagues want to create a Judicial Innovation Fellowship to strengthen America’s court infrastructure. (Day One Project)
How cops built a surveillance machine in Minnesota after George Floyd’s murder. (MIT Tech Review) New Orleans moves to reverse bans on facial recognition, predictive policing, and other surveillance tech. (Lens) From data criminalization to prison abolition. (ADC)
Radio backhaul could enhance police data-transfer capability. (StateTech)
Inside New York’s broken criminal justice data system. (Measures for Justice)
Against geofences. (Stanford) (h/t Brett Diehl)
Powerful Mexicans pay to scrub their reputations online, it’s hindering criminal investigations. (Rest of World)
Justice Tech companies launch new association to advocate for consumers and reforms. (ABA Journal)
An Arizona bill would make it illegal to film police within 15 feet. (NPPA) (h/t Brittany Suzsan)
Information technology and disability justice in the United States. (Just Tech)
The launch of my speculative fiction series about the criminal justice system received some attention. (LawNext)
Events
RightsCon is June 6-10. (RC)
Jobs & Opportunities
Access to Justice Tech Fellows’ science fiction writing contest for law students is accepting entries. (A2JTF)
ACLU Massachusetts needs a technology for liberty intern. (ACLUM)
[New] Amnesty International Tech has multiple positions. (AIT) (h/t Damini Satija)
Arlington County, VA’s states attorney needs a data and litigation support analyst. (ACSA) (h/t Oren Gur)
[New] Aspiration Tech’s Data Leadership Cohort is looking for participants. (AT) (h/t Sean McDonald)
Boundless has numerous openings. (B) (h/t Chase Hertel)
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)
The Congressional-Executive Commission on China needs staff for it’s technology-enhanced authoritarianism research. (CECC)
[New] The Criminal Justice Administrative Records System at the University of Michigan is looking for fellows. (CJARS)
The Day One Project has numerous openings. (D1P)
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has multiple openings. (EFF)
Georgetown’s Center for Privacy and Technology needs a senior associate. (GU) (h/t Samantha Simonsen)
Georgetown Law needs a teaching fellow for its Communications & Technology Law Clinic. (GU)
Harvard’s Library Innovation Lab needs a technologist-in-residence. (LIL)
HeatSeek needs a program associate. (HS)
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)
[New] LawSites needs a part-time editorial assistant. (LS)
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)
The Legal Education Fund in the UK needs a research principle. (LEF)
Measures for Justice has multiple positions open. (M4J)
The National Center for State Courts needs court consultants. (NCSC)
The National Registry of Exonerations needs an ED. (NRE) (h/t Amani Smathers)
The New York County District Attorney’s Office needs a technical product specialist. (DANY)
[New] North Carolina’s Indigent Defense Services needs a research director. (IDS)
Northeastern University needs a information justice prof. (NEU)
Northwestern Law is launching the Journal des Refusés and accepting statements of interest. (JdR)
Paladin has multiple openings. (P) (h/t Felicity Conrad)
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)
The Policing Project needs a legislative director. (PP) (h/t Kaylynn Lopez)
Princeton’s Center for Information and Technology Policy needs summer interns. (CITP)
ProBonoNet needs a product manager. (PBN)
SimpleCitizen, an immigration tech company, has engineering, product and sales roles. (SC) (h/t Eleni Manis)
Stand Together Ventures Lab needs an investment analyst. (STVL)
Stanford CodeX is looking for fellows. (SC)
[New] Stanford Law School needs a justice innovation lead. (SLS) (h/t Andrew Wichmann)
Stanford RegLab needs fellows. (SRL) (h/t Christine Tsang)
Surveillance Technology Oversight Project has openings. (STOP) (h/t Eleni Manis)
Systemic Justice is hiring for multiple roles. (SJ)
[New] Theory and Principle, a legal software development boutique, has multiple postings. (T&P)
[New] The University of North Carolina needs a post-doc researcher on AI decision making. (UNC)
The University of North Carolina’s Criminal Justice Innovation Lab needs a research director. (UNC)
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 US Digital Response needs a digital services program lead. (USDR)
Vera needs an innovation senior associate. (Vera)
Yale’s Internet Society Project needs an executive director. (ISP)