JTDL: ML & criminal law; New ability to pay tool + New jobs
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Editor’s Note
This is the last newsletter of 2022. Thank you all for making this such a wonderful year. I’ve loved seeing this community grow and hearing how this newsletter helped you find a resource or a job or an employee. Positive feedback like this helps me keep it going. So, thank you for letting me know.
With everything happening over the next few weeks with the Judicial Innovation Fellowship program, I’m taking a longer than usual break this holiday. I will be back in February 2023. In the meantime, please continue to send job postings, events, and articles you think our community would benefit from.
I have one other final request this year: Please spread the word about the upcoming info sessions for the Judicial Innovation Fellowship to your colleagues. We have one on January 11 for court staff and one on February 28 for people interested in being fellows. The signup links are at judicialinnovation.org.
Thank you again for a great 2022. I hope you have a wonderful holiday and a happy new year.
Jason
News
Twitter chaos reinforces why governments must limit reliance on commercial software. (Tech Policy Press) (h/t Keith Porcaro)
Face recognition gets Girl Scout mom booted from Rockettes show due to where she works. (NBC) (h/t Zach Zarnow & John Grant)
A new direction for machine learning in criminal law. (Stanford) (h/t Ashwin Ramaswami)
The Chicago Police are fans of encryption, as long as it means keeping information out of the public’s hands. (Tech Dirt)
Police in South Bend, Indiana bring surveillance data together in one place. (CBS)
Ideas42 and the Fines and Fees Justice Center developed an ability to pay tool. (I42)
Lessons learned from 20 years of automating justice. (Law Practice Today)
The playbook for data sharing in research. (Fight for the Future) (h/t Lama Mohammed)
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 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)
[New] Aspen Institute’s Digital Equity Accelerator team is looking for a senior project manager. (AI)
Center for Democracy and Technology has multiple open positions. (CDT) (h/t Alex Givens)
[New] Coding it Forward is recruiting for its next cohort of fellows. (CIF)
[New] Columbia University’s Knight Center for the First Amendment needs a comms coordinator. (CUK) (h/t Rashan Thompson)
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)
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)
Harvard Law Schools needs an assistant director of research innovation. (HLS)
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)
Lift Wisconsin needs a new ED. (LW) (h/t Jeff Brown)
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 fellows. (PP) (h/t Kaylynn Lopez)
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)
[New] TechCongress is recruiting its next innovation cohort. (TC)
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)
[New] US Senator Jeane Shaheen needs counsel to help with judiciary and cybersecurity, among other issues. (JS)
