Gang Databases & Social Media
A primer on discovery and suppression issues
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Product Description
Product Description
While police across the country have touted gang and social media databases as innovative and vital public safety tools, defense attorneys, community members and clients have raised concerns that these tools are infringements on liberty, due process, and have done little more than digitize structural racism. From how gangs are defined, how members are validated, and who becomes part of the database, the complexities of these police discovery and monitoring tools routinely come up in courts across the Commonwealth and they have grave implications for the outcome of cases. Increased reliance on these digitized databases warrants new and updated discovery and suppression motion practice.Join our experts as we look into what these databases are, how they are used, and how defense attorneys can address the due process and racial profiling issues raised.
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Agenda
Agenda & Materials
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2:00 pm - 2:05 pm
Welcome and Introduction to the Secret Database of Gangs
on demand video Add to CartJoshua Raisler Cohn, Esq., Committee for Public Counsel Services , Roxbury
Victoria Kelleher, Esq., Law Office of Victoria Kelleher , Boston
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2:05 pm - 2:11 pm
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2:11 pm - 2:17 pm
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2:17 pm - 2:21 pm
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2:21 pm - 2:40 pm
Social Media Spying and How Evidence is being Used
on demand video Add to CartJoshua Raisler Cohn, Esq., Committee for Public Counsel Services , Roxbury
Victoria Kelleher, Esq., Law Office of Victoria Kelleher , Boston
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2:40 pm - 2:56 pm
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