Implementing a Body-Worn Camera Program Recommendations and Lessons Learned
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Can You Hear Us Now?
This piece is cross-posted from Common Cause. “Speaking just a few weeks before his assassination, Martin Luther King Jr. said, “It is not enough for me to stand before you tonight and condemn riots. It would be morally irresponsible for me to do that without, at the same time, condemning the contingent, intolerable conditions that exist in Read more
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5 Really Big Myths About ‘Next Generation’ Civil Rights and the Fight for an Open Internet
As Black communities emerge from the shadows of criminalization, hashtags like #BlackLivesMatter have jumped off the computer screen and into the street.
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Price to Call Home: State Sanctioned Monopolization in the Prison Phones Industry
A primer report from the Prison Policy Initiative on how exorbitant calling rates make the prison telephone industry one of the most lucrative businesses in the United States today, at the expense of some of the most vulnerable consumers.
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Please Deposit All of Your Money – Prison Policy Initiative
A report on kickbacks, rates, and hidden fees in the jail phone industry
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Civil Rights, Big Data, and Our Algorithmic Future
Key decisions that shape people’s lives—decisions about jobs, healthcare, housing, education, criminal justice and other key areas—are, more and more often, being made automatically by computers. As a result, a growing number of important conversations about civil rights, which focus on how these decisions are made, are also becoming discussions about how computer systems work. Read more
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Civil Rights Principles for the Era of Big Data
A diverse coalition of civil and human rights organizations, media justice advocates, and good government groups publicly released a core set of Civil Rights Principles for the Era of Big Data in February 2014. The Principles are intended to inform corporations, law enforcement, and state and federal policymakers about the critical impacts on civil rights Read more