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February 20, 2025 | Blog Post | Kaelin Rapport

Fighting Fires through Coercion: The Criminalization and Exploitation of Black Laborers

By Kaelin Rapport

June 16, 2024 | News Clip | Clarence Okoh

The School (in)Security Newsletter: Hackers Hawk Stolen LAUSD Files; Parkland HS Demolished; Swatter Sentenced

By Mark Keierleber  (EXCERPT) ‘New Jim Code’: Federal officials have failed to deter the civil rights harms that artificial intelligence in schools poses to students of color, a new report argues. | The Center for Law and Social Policy Read the full article here. 

May 23, 2024 | Report/Brief | Clarence Okoh

Dangerous Data: What Communities Should Know about Artificial Intelligence, the School-to-Prison Pipeline, and School Surveillance

In recent years, federal policymakers have taken steps to address the societal implications of AI and big data technologies, including the White House Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights, President Biden’s Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence, and the U.S. Department of Education’s guidance on…

May 16, 2024 | Report/Brief | Lulit Shewan

The Unethical Use of Captive Labor in U.S. Prisons

In the US, all state and federal prisons allow some form of involuntary labor as part of various correctional work programs. Urgent reform is needed.

April 26, 2024 | News Clip | Jesse Fairbanks

Forced Treatment and Criminalization Won’t End Homelessness

By Jesse Fairbanks In late April, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in an important case regarding homelessness. Grants Pass v. Johnson will decide whether the city of Grants Pass, Oregon, violated the constitutional rights of people experiencing homelessness by fining or arresting them…

April 5, 2024 | Testimony/Comments | Clarence Okoh

Written statement of Clarence Okoh Senior Policy Counsel & Just Tech Fellow Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Pennsylvania Advisory Committee Public briefings on civil rights and the rising use of artificial intelligence in education

By Clarence Okoh Testimony about his extensive experience in combating the use of emerging technologies to undermine the civil and human rights of youth and young adults of color. He highlighted his involvement in initiatives such as the PASCO Coalition: People Against the Surveillance of…

March 19, 2024 | Blog Post | Deanie Anyangwe

Are We Listening? Youth Mental Health Challenges are Rooted in Community Violence

Policymakers must adopt a more nuanced understanding of the roles systemic divestment, place-based disadvantage, anti-Black racism, racial capitalism, mass criminalization and other critical factors have in driving community violence.

October 19, 2023 | Testimony/Comments | Clarence Okoh

Letter to the Bureau of Justice Assistance’s Review of the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office Grant-Related Activities finds Racial Disparities in Local Predictive Policing Program

CLASP and our partners in the PASCO Coalition have asked the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to end its support of Pasco County's discriminatory predictive policing programs...

September 6, 2023 | Report/Brief | Deanie Anyangwe

Unified, Safe, and Well: Building Life-Affirming Systems for Justice-Impacted Families

In this report, we analyze the landscape for family-based alternative sentencing programs to assess the effectiveness of these programs in meeting their program goals.

June 7, 2023 | Blog Post | Teon Hayes

To Help Returning Citizens Rebuild Their Lives, Congress Must Lift the SNAP Felony Drug Ban

Congress should prioritize repealing the SNAP felony ban by passing the RESTORE Act and ensuring the repeal is included in the Farm Bill reauthorization.

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