JTDL: Killer police robots; Plea deal data is bad + New jobs
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News
Last week, we launched the Judicial Innovation Fellowship program at Georgetown Law. (ABA Journal) (Law360)
San Francisco approved the use of remote-controlled robots to kill suspects. (Verge) (h/t Keith Porcaro)
ICE accidentally published more than 6,000 asylum seekers’ identities. (New York Times)
Google still keeps abortion search history. (Guardian)
A US biometric surveillance database reached 10,000 data points. (Biometric Update)
Surprise, plea deal data is inadequate. (NPR)
The Justice Department should publish corporate crime data. (Public Citizen)
A call to modernize American crime statistics. (UMSL Daily)
American police forces perpetuate racial stereotypes on social media. (Economist)
How China’s police used phones and faces to track protesters. (New York Times)
The second wave of algorithmic accountability. (LPE Project)
Co-creating a better tech future. (All Tech is Human)
How do people react to AI failure? Automation bias, algorithmic aversion, and perceived controllability. (Oxford)
Events
The Engagement Lab’s Solving for Trust: Innovations in Smart Urban Governance is Dec. 5. (EL)
Harvard Berkman Klein Center’s Algorithmic Discrimination & Fairness: Reducing the Gap Between the Legal & Technical is Dec. 6. (HBK)
Innovations in Justice Tech Venture Forum SF is Dec. 8. (IJT)
The Judicial Innovation Fellows Program’ information session for court staff is Jan. 11. (JIF)
The Judicial Innovation Fellows Program’ information session for technologists and designers is Feb. 28. (JIF)
The Privacy Law Scholars Conference is June 1-2. (PLSC)
Jobs & Opportunities
[New] ACLU Speech, Privacy and Tech projet needs interns. (ACLU)
ACLU NorCal needs a staff attorney for its tech and civil liberties division. (ACLU) (h/t Ellen)
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)
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)
Data and Society is hiring for various roles. (DS)
eyeWitness to Atrocities needs an ED. (eWA)
[New] The Federation of American Scientists has a policy entrepreneur fellowship. (FAS)
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)
[New] The US General Services Administration has a legal technology division they’re hiring for. (GSA)
The German Marshall Fund of the US needs a research assistant. (GMF) (h/t Tony Franquiz)
Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center needs fellows. (BKC)
Harvard’s Center for Research on Computation and Society needs post docs. (CRCS)
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)
The Massachusetts Law Reform Initiative needs a digital project manager. (MLRI) (h/t Rochelle Hahn)
Measures for Justice has multiple positions open. (M4J)
The National Center for State Courts’ A2J team needs court management consultants. (NCSC) (h/t Zach Zarnow)
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)
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. (PDAO) (h/t Oren Gur)
The Policing Project is hiring for multiple positions. (PP) (h/t Kaylynn Lopez)
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)
[New] Stanford CodeX is looking for residential fellows. (SCX)
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)
University of Michigan needs an assistant professor of urban data and tech. (UM)
University of Portland’s Evicted in Oregon program needs researchers. (UP) (h/t Matthew J. Hall)
Upsolve, the bankruptcy platform, needs an engineer. (US)
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)