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Justice Updates from CLASP
CLASP collaborates with movement partners to build abolitionist futures for youth and young adults by uplifting economic, racial, and social justice policy solutions to disrupt the relationship between poverty, race, and punishment. We amplify innovative, youth-led approaches to community safety that invest in life-affirming systems of care and eradicate systems that surveil, police, prosecute, or incarcerate Black, brown, and Indigenous youth and their communities.
Check out our new resources for insight into key issues, strategies, and principles surrounding justice.
"Public and private actors are turning to artificial intelligence (AI) and other big data technologies to engineer new futures for structural racism and social inequality in the United States, a phenomenon that the sociologist Ruha Benjamin has termed the ‘New Jim Code,’” Clarence Okoh writes in his newest report, “Dangerous Data: What Communities Should Know About Artificial Intelligence, the School-to-Prison Pipeline, and School Surveillance.”
Okoh's report helps youth justice advocates, youth leaders, educators, caregivers, and policymakers understand and challenge the impact of school surveillance, data criminalization, and police surveillance technologies in schools. This is critically important because, as Okoh writes, “These technologies are upending decades of civil and human rights legal standards, expanding mass criminalization, restricting access to social services, and enabling systemic discrimination in housing, employment, and health care, among other areas. The New Jim Code carries unique threats to youth and young adults of color, especially in the context of K-12 public schools. As the infrastructure of police surveillance grows in public schools, communities must be prepared to safeguard rights and freedoms of students and families.”
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Check out CLASP’s recent advocacy challenging the impact of police surveillance technologies on the rights of youth and young adults:
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CLASP
was
one
of
over
40
social
justice
organizations
that
signed
on
to
a
letter
from
the
NOTICE
Coalition
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to
the
Department
of
Education
demanding
that
the
agency
ban
and
divest
federal
funding
for
police
surveillance
technologies
in
schools.
Read
the
letter
here
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and
coverage
of
the
letter
in
EdWeek
here
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.
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CLASP
is
a
member
of
the
PASCO
Coalition
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,
which
successfully
advocated
for
the
Department
of
Justice
(DOJ)
to
investigate
a
Florida
school
district’s
data-sharing
practices
with
law
enforcement.
The
DOJ
announced
a
settlement
agreement
with
the
school
district,
citing
civil
rights
violations
related
to
the
district’s
use
of
threat
assessments
and
exclusionary
discipline
against
students
with
disabilities.
Learn
more
about
the
agreement
here
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.
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Okoh
also
testified
before
the
U.S.
Civil
Rights
Commission
on
the
impact
of
artificial
intelligence
and
other
emerging
technologies
on
the
civil
and
human
rights
of
marginalized
youth.
Check
out
his
testimony
here
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