by Antonia Diener | Nov 13, 2019 | Amicus, Criminal Justice, Policing and Law Enforcement, Privacy and Technology
Technology frequently progresses faster than legal institutions are able to keep up. Facial surveillance – the use by police and other entities of technology which can recognize people and identify them by their faces – is one such area. Facial recognition...
by Antonia Diener | Oct 31, 2019 | Amicus, Labor and Employment
Written by Annie Wilt and Antonia Diener The National Labor Relations Board recently proposed a new rule which would categorically exclude “students who perform any services for compensation, including, but not limited to, teaching or research, at a private college or...
by Antonia Diener | Oct 21, 2019 | Amicus, Weekly News Roundup
Welcome to This Week in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. This week’s roundup is co-authored by Antonia Diener and Lexi Butler. This week, a Texas judge removed protections for transgender people in health insurance markets, and a Florida judge granted a...
by Antonia Diener | Oct 17, 2019 | Amicus
In response to mounting concerns about inequity in the criminal legal system, the Pennsylvania Commission on Sentencing (“Commission”) has proposed a Sentencing Risk Assessment Instrument (“Instrument”) to standardize sentencing in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania....