So stoked to finally do a Tiny Chat with Zach and Danielle! Here's the one where we talk about JIF, from the future.

Free Law is one of those justice tech groups that always finds a way to punch above their weight. Congrats to Free Law Project, and congrats to America! This is a great win.

Justice is button hierarchy. Below is what a multi-billion dollar company thinks is good design ('continue' on the left??).

Meanwhile, in Utah, our Judicial Innovation Fellowship fellow created button hierarchy for all court self-help resources across the state. No big deal, and we cost less.

Let's get some justice and court tech people on this survey. Otherwise, the executive branch is gonna keep getting all the shine.

Tell Congress: Instead of passing an overreaching and unconstitutional TikTok ban, they should solve the real problem of out-of-control privacy invasions by enacting comprehensive consumer data privacy legislation. act.eff.org/action/tell-co…

Ashwin has been invaluable to us helping build Judicial Innovation Fellowship. Now he's running for state senate in Georgia and talking about how programs like JIF can strengthen our democracy.

He's not wrong.

Thank you to State Justice Institute for spotlighting our work!

Very excited to wake up to a feature about us on the State Justice Institute's website. They've been fantastic partners, supporting our work with the Kansas State Courts and the Hamilton County General Sessions Court in Tennessee.

sji.gov/judicial-innov…

Forthcoming in Harvard JOLT, our historical analysis of the complex relationship between privacy rights and criminal legal system policymaking around the disclosure of criminal records

It's encouraging to see this type of language from the head of a government agency that everyone interacts with. The IRA had so many good things in it, including taking on the tax prep mafia.

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Such a big deal, the government offering services for free that rent seeking companies were gouging people on.

How did criminal justice become such a thing? Research, funding, political attention is all on crim, while dregs are provided for civil, regardless that the brokenness looks the same, stems from similar issues, & impacts the same communities. Does anyone know how we got here?

A 1 hour increase in estimated travel time to court
increases the probability of eviction by between 3.8% and 8.6%.

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Exciting, ambitious stuff coming from Free Law Project ⚖ 🦋.

Oregon is low-key leading the way on all kinds of legal reform. The most recent win:

I always read what Sarah's got to say. You should too.

I've never felt a strong sense of professional accomplishment than meeting these three fellows and knowing that we're building something great.

Mitigating job loss should be the priority. Extinction is a distraction.

I just went through the whole student loan restart thing, & I just realized that, after paying on these loans for 11 years, 'Financial Aid' is an oxymoron.

I had a chance to talk with Le Temps about one of America's peculiarities: the mugshot.