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 the 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.
Join the 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.
Course Content
2:00 pm - 2:05 pmWelcome and Introduction to the Secret Database of Gangs
Joshua Raisler Cohn,
Committee for Public Counsel Services, Roxbury
Victoria Kelleher, Esq.,
Law Office of Victoria Kelleher, Boston
2:05 pm - 2:11 pm
Structural Racism in Gang Databases
Panel
2:11 pm - 2:17 pm
Reasonable Basis and How Profiles are Created in Gang Databases
Panel
2:17 pm - 2:21 pm
Discovery and Suppression Considerations for Challenging Gang Databases
2:21 pm - 2:40 pm
Social Media Spying and How Evidence is being Used
Joshua Raisler Cohn,
Committee for Public Counsel Services, Roxbury
Victoria Kelleher, Esq.,
Law Office of Victoria Kelleher, Boston
2:40 pm - 2:56 pm
Gang Databases & Social Media: Discovery Steps and Q&A
Panel
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Speakers
Speaker(s)Joshua Raisler Cohn,
Committee for Public Counsel Services, Roxbury
Victoria Kelleher, Esq.,
Law Office of Victoria Kelleher, Boston
