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It’s nearly tip-off time. Celebrate #FOIAFriday with FOIA March Madness 2019
In just a few hours, we’ll be switching off the brackets, powering up the Request-O-Matic, and sending out the same request to 64 federal FOIA agencies in a quest to find this year’s Most Responsive Agency.
Two months after First Step Act, no sign work has started on its centerpiece risk assessment software
More than two months since President Donald Trump signed into law the First Step Act, the development of a risk assessment tool central to its implementation is still stalled.
The annual event. The one. The only. FOIA March Madness, 2019 Edition.
We’re submitting the same request to 64 Freedom of Information Act offices. You’re predicting the agencies that’ll fulfill them. It’s FOIA March Madness year four, and there are stickers.
Eight years in, LAPD can’t measure PredPol’s effect on crime
An internal audit of the Los Angeles Police Department’s Chronic Offender Program and PredPol usage found few accurate ways to measure accountability in data-driven policing.
Idaho transparency bill would increase public access to pretrial risk tools
Idaho is one step closer to becoming the first state to make pretrial risk assessment algorithms more transparent and open to public scrutiny, addressing long festering concerns about the risk to civil rights of automated pretrial tools in criminal justice.