JTDL: Malware nukes Russian courts; Trauma-informed automation + New Jobs
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News
As fatal police shootings increase, more go unreported. (Washington Post)
The US 4th Circuit Court of Appeals will decide if you can live-stream your traffic stop. (Washington Post)
The LAPD doesn’t fully track its use of facial recognition. (LA Times) A forensic without the science: Face recognition in US criminal investigations. (Georgetown)
A grandmother sues a Denver cop who wrongly targeted her home using the “Find My” app. (Ars Technica)
For courts, tech isn’t just a tool—it’s the message. (Government Technology)
How police work with Google to obtain cellphone location data for criminal investigations. (USA Today)
San Francisco supervisors bar police robots from using deadly force for now. (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
How Big Tech turned state surveillance into big business. (ACRE Action Center)
Apple says it will allow iCloud backups to be fully encrypted. (Washington Post)
Portland city officials avoid a competitive process for its gunshot detection pilot. (Oregon Public Broadcasting) (h/t Matthew J. Hall)
Trauma-informed automation of administrative decisions in welfare states. (Data & Society)
Never-before-seen malware is nuking data in Russia’s courts. (Ars Technica)
Events
The Judicial Innovation Fellows Program’s information session for court staff is Jan. 11. (JIF)
The Judicial Innovation Fellows Program’s information session for technologists and designers is Feb. 28. (JIF)
The Privacy Law Scholars Conference is June 1-2. (PLSC)
Jobs & Opportunities
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)
[New] 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)
The US General Services Administration has a legal technology division they’re hiring for. (GSA)
[New] Georgetown Law’s Institute for Tech Law & Policy needs a program coordinator. (GU) (h/t Natalie Roisman)
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)
[New] Harvard Law Schools needs an assistant director of research innovation. (HLS)
[New] Haverford College has a post-doc for those into tech and society. (HC)
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] Lift Wisconsin needs a new ED. (LW) (h/t Jeff Brown)
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)
[New] 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)
[New] Pro Bono Net needs a UX designer. (PBN) (h/t Sam Harden)
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)
Stanford CodeX is looking for residential fellows. (SCX)
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)
[New] University College London needs a natural language processing research fellow for the Violence, Health, and Society Consortium. (UCL) (h/t Leonie Tanczer)
[New] University College London needs a research fellow in technology facilitated abuse in intimate partner violence contexts. (UCL) (h/t Leonie Tanczer)
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)
Upsolve, the bankruptcy platform, needs an engineer. (U)
[New] Upturn has multiple openings. (U)
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)
