Pittsburgh’s municipalities have used public algorithmic systems to make decisions ranging from children’s safety to policing. A task force from a local cybersecurity institute wants to make sure it’s ethical. The University of Pittsburgh’s Institute for Cyber Law, Policy and Security just published the first report from its Pittsburgh Task […]
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A Public Defender on the High Court
When Ketanji Brown Jackson was applying to college, her high school guidance counselor told her not to set her sights too high. Now an experienced judge, with stints as a public defender, a U.S. Sentencing Commissioner, and a lawyer in private practice, Jackson is poised to make history as the […]
Executive Order on Improving Public Safety and Criminal Justice for Native Americans and Addressing the Crisis of Missing or Murdered Indigenous People
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, I hereby order as follows: Section 1. Policy. The safety and well-being of all Native Americans is a top priority for my Administration. My Administration will work hand in hand with Tribal […]
NYS Senator Daphne Jordan & Saratoga County Clerk Craig Hayner outline policy remedies to fix Green Light Law’s identified deficiencies, protect public safety, & save taxpayer dollars
Halfmoon, NY – Responding to reporting that chronicled widespread cheating and fraud within the State DMV’s driver permit program connected, in part, to the state’s Green Light Law, New York State Senator Daphne Jordan (R,C,I-Halfmoon) and Saratoga County Clerk Craig Hayner today outlined several policy remedies to fix identified deficiencies, protect public safety, and […]
Appeals court: Cyber Ninjas subject to public records law
The Court of Appeals has shot down the latest bid by Cyber Ninjas to keep secret the records it has related to the audit of the 2020 election. In an 8-page ruling Tuesday, the judges rebuffed claims by the company that the documents, emails and other items it has are […]
‘The public was his family:’ Former Flint clerk, ombudsman Terry Bankert dies at 70
FLINT, MI — Former Flint city clerk and ombudsman Terry Bankert has died at age 70 following a year-long battle with brain cancer that left him without his sight for the last year of his life. Bankert, who practiced family and bankruptcy law in Flint, served as the city clerk […]