JTDL: Taser drones; risk assessing the system + New jobs

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Editor’s Note

It’s that time of year when, as everyone takes a break from their screens, I take a break from the newsletter. I can’t thank you enough for continuing to read and share these weekly dispatches, and I’m especially grateful for all of the support and interest in the 40 Futures project. I’m busy working on more stories and hope to share them soon. As for the regular newsletter, we’ll be back in September. In the meantime, take care and have a wonderful summer.

-Jason

News

Axon proposes drones with tasers to handle school shootings. (Gizmodo) (h/t Keith Porcaro) Most of Axon’s ethics board members resigned. (Policing Project)

With significant funding from the Bay Area’s tech community, San Francisco’s reform-minded prosecutor was recalled. (CBS)

A New York court ordered service on a blockchain token. (Twitter)

Looming abortion law changes are pushing clinics to take a look at digital privacy. (NBC)

An actuarial model for assessing the risk the federal sentencing system poses to defendants. (arXiv)

How consumer technology is creating new channels for police surveillance. (TechMonitor)

A California sheriff will stop sharing license-plate data after a settlement. (StateScoop)

How local high-tech crime units are tracking and seizing stolen cryptocurrency. (NBC)

The linguistics search engine that overturned the federal mask mandate. (Verge) (h/t Irina Raicu)

How a new generation is combating digital surveillance. (Boston Review)

Contracting for digital services. (Tiny Chats)

The NSA was honored for diversity in surveillance footage. (Onion)

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Events

Reimagining Justice: From Ideas To Impact by the American Bar Foundation is June 23-5. (ABF)

The Race to Regulate AI at the University of Oxford is June 30. (UOx)

Civics of Technology is hosting its first conference Aug. 4-5. (CoT)

The Colour of Surveillance Europe Conference is Sept. is 15-16. (EDRi)

Jobs & Opportunities

Access to Justice Tech Fellows opened summer placement positions for law students. (ATJ)

Bay Area Legal Services (Florida) needs a legal tech and digital project manager. (BALS)

Berkeley Law’s Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic needs a clinical professor. (UCB)

Boundless has numerous openings. (B) (h/t Chase Hertel)

Brookings’ Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technology initiative needs a Project Coordinator. (BI)

Carnegie Melon University needs an ED for its tech and society center. (CMU)

Center for Democracy and Technology has multiple open positions. (CDT) (h/t Alex Givens)

Center for Policing Equity needs a VP of tech and data (an engineer). (CPE)

Color of Change needs a director of IT and infosec. (CoC) (h/t Archana Ahlawat)

The Criminal Justice Administrative Records System at the University of Michigan is looking for fellows. (CJARS)

The Day One Project has numerous openings. (D1P)

European Digital Rights needs a comms director. (EDRi)

The Electronic Frontier Foundation needs a director of institutional support. (EFF)

[New] Ford Foundation needs a program officer for their US tech and society work. (FF)

Georgetown’s Center for Privacy and Technology needs a senior associate. (GU) (h/t Samantha Simonsen)

Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center needs a coordinator. (BKC)

Huton Andrews Kurth needs an AI & Emerging Technologies Fellow. (HAK)

Just Tech has numerous openings. (JT) (h/t Legal Tech Jobs)

[New] The Los Angeles County Bar Association and Fuse Corps need a fellow focused on CMSes and resentencing. (LABA)

[New] The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors and Fuse Corps need a fellow to build a service delivery model for the justice-involved population. (LABS)

Legal Services of Northern California need an IT manager. (LSNC) (h/t Amy Williams)

Maastricht University needs two law and tech professors. (MU)

Measures for Justice has multiple positions open. (M4J)

MIT needs a postdoctoral associate focused on digital teaching simulations and AI coaching. (MIT)

The National Center for State Courts needs court consultants. (NCSC)

New America’s New Practice Lab needs a deputy director. (NA)

The Omidyar Network needs principals for their Responsible Tech initiative. (ON)

Paladin has multiple openings. (P) (h/t Felicity Conrad)

The Philly District Attorney's Office is looking to fill a number of roles, including for a dev. (PDAO)

The Policing Project has multiple openings. (PP) (h/t Kaylynn Lopez)

[New] The Presidential Innovation Fellowship is accepting applications. (PIF)

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 Law School needs a justice innovation lead. (SLS) (h/t Andrew Wichmann)

Stanford RegLab needs a research director. (SRL) (h/t Christine Tsang)

Surveillance Technology Oversight Project has openings. (STOP) (h/t Eleni Manis)

Systemic Justice needs a strategic partnership lead. (SJ) (h/t Keith Porcaro)

TechCongress needs a program operations manager. (TC)

Theory and Principle, a legal software development boutique, is hiring. (T&P)

Texas Indigent Defense Commission needs a data analyst. (TIDC)

The University of Helsinki Legal Tech Lab needs a doc­toral re­searcher in automated sys­tems and ad­min­is­trat­ive legal frame­works. (UH)

Upsolve, the bankruptcy platform, is hiring for multiple roles. (US)

Urban Institute’s Justice Policy Center needs a principle research associate. (UI) (h/t Emily Tiry)

Vera has numerous openings for data scientist and IT roles. (Vera)

Witness needs a consultant for its Cameras Everywhere program. (W)