The Oklahoma Supreme Court’s recent decision to dismiss a case brought by survivors of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre is a powerful reminder that American legal and political institutions can engineer unjust futures from unjust pasts.
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 22: Clarence Okoh spoke at a webinar hosted by the American Bar Association that discussed the complexities of AI in education and explored potential strategies to ensure that AI enhances educational equity and student well-being. View the recording here.
By Lauraine Langreo (EXCERPT) “One of the things we have seen is that a lot of those COVID-era funds have been used to procure a lot of these technologies,” said Clarence Okoh, one of the leaders of the coalition and a senior policy counsel for…
By CLARENCE OKOH, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR EXCERPT: Last month, the White House announced its highly anticipated executive order on artificial intelligence. Unfortunately, the Biden administration missed another critical opportunity to address the AI civil rights crisis unfolding across Black communities nationwide. Read the full article here.
By Clarence Okoh: In this panel presentation, members of the NOTICE Coalition (“No Tech Criminalization in Education”) provide an overview of how controversial police surveillance technologies are entering schools nationwide, enabling a new digital rendering of the school-to-prison pipeline. The presentation also featured an interactive…
By Clarence Okoh: Police surveillance tools such as gunshot detection, social media surveillance, facial recognition technology, predictive policing software, and “smart” camera networks have proliferated in communities of color, and have drawn criticism for racial discrimination, privacy abuses, and systemic civil and human rights violations.…
