JTDL: ShotSpotter changes name (& is still bad); Police software crashes 911 + New jobs
JTDL: ShotSpotter changes name (& is still bad); Police software crashes 911 + New jobs
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Editor’s Note
The newsletter will be off next week. Enjoy spring!
-Jason
News
The Judicial Innovation Fellowship was featured in an article about justice entrepreneurship. (Reuters)
Policing software was blamed in at least three states for errors, including losing a criminal case and crashing during 911 calls. (NBC)
AI is coming for lawyers, again. (New York Times) AI isn’t going to save us. (Rest of World)
Robot lawyers are about to flood the courts. (Wired)
Central Indiana police encrypt their radios. (Indy Star)
ShotSpotter changed its name and launched a new platform. (Bloomberg) ShotSpotter—or, whatever—is sending police to the wrong areas. (Eric Piza)
Los Angeles does the police union’s dirty work by suing a person over public records he legally obtained. (Tech Dirt) The Massachusetts State Police failed twice to redact troopers’ birth dates in public records responses. (Tech Dirt)
A tiny blog took on big surveillance in China—and won. (Wired)
A judge in Colorado is adding plain language summaries to her rulings. (Law.com)
You can browse Ann Arbor crime statistics on a new transparency dashboard. (WDIV)
User-centered design guidelines for public benefit sites. (Route Fifty)
What if we could just ask AI to be less biased? (MIT Tech Review)
Eric Adams sure loves his robot cop toys. (Hell Gate)
Events
The New York Courts’ technology conference is April 18-9. (NYC) (h/t James Carey)
Meta Lab’s conversation on the personal cost of human rights work is April 19. (ML)
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)
WeRobot is September 29-30. (WR)
Jobs & Opportunities
Aspen Tech Policy Hub’s Nonprofit and Public Interest Policy Training Fellowship is accepting applicants. (ATPH)
Baltimore City is looking for data fellows program manager. (Balt)
Center for Democracy and Technology has multiple open positions. (CDT) (h/t Alex Givens)
[New] Cornell’s Clinic to End Tech Abuse needs remote volunteers. (CU) (h/t Alana Ramjit)
Data and Society is hiring for various roles. (DS)
The Federal Trade Commission needs technologists. (FTC)
The Free Law Project needs a development director. (FLP) (h/t Mike Lissner)
The Ford Foundation needs a missions investments technology fellow. (FF)
[New] The Ford Foundation needs a program officer for tech and society. (FF) (h/t Keith Porcaro)
[New] Frontline Justice needs a CEO. (FJ)
[New] Georgetown is accepting applications for its masters in law and tech program. (GU) (h/t Mary Pat Dwyer)
The Legal Services Corporation has tech and innovation RFPs open. (LSC) (h/t Sarah Abdelhadi)
The Journal of Science and Law is accepting papers on justice tech. (JSL) (h/t Sasha Davenport)
Just Tech has numerous openings. (JT) (h/t Legal Tech Jobs)
MacArthur Foundation needs a program officer focused on public interest tech. (MF) (h/t Keith Porcaro)
[New] The National Center for State Courts needs an A2J consultant. (NCSC) (h/t Zach Zarnow)
Open Contracting Partnership has a grant for procurement reformers. (OCP) (h/t Reilly Martin)
[New] The Oxford Internet Institute needs a post-doc researcher for their trustworthiness auditing AI project. (Ox)
The Philly District Attorney's Office is looking to fill a number of roles. (PDAO) (h/t Oren Gur)
The Policing Project has multiple openings. (PP) (h/t Kaylynn Lopez)
Raheem is hiring for numerous roles. (R)
Rejis needs an executive director. (R) (h/t Anjali Fernandes)
SimpleCitizen, an immigration tech company, has engineering, product and sales roles. (SC) (h/t Eleni Manis)
Stanford University needs a civil justice and innovation fellow. (SU)
Surveillance Resistance Lab needs a senior research fellow. (SRL) (h/t Rebecca Williams)
Tech Matters needs a research assistant for a new book and a data commons project. (TM)
The Tech Talent Project is hiring for multiple roles. (TTP)
Theory and Principle, a legal software development boutique, is hiring. (T&P)
UCLA Law Behind Bars Data Project seeks Research Director. (UCLA)
The University of Florence (Italy) is seeking applicants for its school on digital constitutionalism. (UF)
The University of Virginia needs a fellow focused on data and democracy. (UVA)
[New] Willful is hiring a head of legal. (W) (h/t Erin Bury)
