Christopher Hoofnagle interviewed by National Public Radio, Morning Edition, January 28, 2013
“Most companies are very secretive about civil and law enforcement requests for user data,” says Chris Hoofnagle, who specializes in privacy issues at Berkeley Law…. “Google is going out on a limb here because, by making these statements, they might be creating customer expectations that certain process will be followed when their data is revealed to law enforcement.”
Franklin Zimring and David Johnson write for Economic and Political Weekly, January 26, 2013
A death penalty for rapists in India is a truly terrible idea. With tens of thousands of rapes each year but only two executions in the past 15 years, arbitrary and discriminatory enforcement of the death penalty would be a certainty, not least because inefficient, misogynistic, and corrupt police and prosecutors would be put in charge of this lethal lottery.
Franklin Zimring cited in The New York Times, January 25, 2013
If the city had followed the national trend, nearly 60,000 additional New Yorkers would be behind bars today, and the number of city and state correction officers would have more than doubled since 1990, said Franklin E. Zimring…. By not expanding the jail and prison populations … the city and the state have been saving $1.5 billion a year.
Franklin Zimring quoted in San Francisco Chronicle, January 25, 2013
“I think that’s exactly what Oakland needs,” said Franklin Zimring…. about the transformation in New York that began under Bratton in the early 1990s. “What I see as important about a Bill Bratton is as a management consultant, because it’s getting the policing changes in Oakland organized and coordinated which are going to be the challenge.”
Pamela Samuelson writes for San Francisco Chronicle, January 25, 2013
What was Internet activist Aaron Swartz thinking when he downloaded 4 million articles from JSTOR (short for journal storage), a digital library of scholarly articles, in a closet at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology? Because of his suicide this month, we will never know for sure, but one consistent theme ran through his short but brilliant career: The Internet provides amazing opportunities to open more access to knowledge. And he wanted to help that process.
Joan Hollinger writes for The New York Times, Room for Debate, January 24, 2013
Is it inconsistent with the … Indian Child Welfare Act to allow an Indian biological father who has forfeited any parental rights he might have had under state law to block a non-Indian mother’s voluntary adoptive placement of her newborn child with prospective parents selected by her? Yes. The invocation of the federal law in such circumstances conflicts with its underlying goals and is an unwarranted interference with the child’s liberty interests in remaining with her adoptive family, as well as with her mother’s right to serve her child’s best interests by relinquishing her for adoption.
Christopher Edley, Jr., cited in Huffington Post, College, January 24, 2013
An influential group of college presidents, civil rights leaders and advocates sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is highlighting what it calls a growing higher education dropout crisis and seeks to fix it in part by linking financial aid with successful graduation…. Members of the coalition include Sandy Baum, a Skidmore economist influential on higher education policy, and Christopher Edley, Jr., dean of University of California, Berkeley, School of Law.
Franklin Zimring interviewed by National Public Radio, All Things Considered, January 24, 2013
“If you’re going to make the assumption that changes in crime rates always are responding to policies,” Zimring says, “then why shouldn’t we be blaming the police for the slight increases [in New York’s murder rate] in 2010 and 2011?”
Zakiya Luna writes for Dissent Magazine, January 23, 2013
Reproduction and the rest of life were not separate in my household, and we know for many women they never were, even though some pro-choice activists organized that way…. Reproductive justice reminds us that while the right to not have a child is important, the right to have a child and the right to parent with dignity must be protected just as strongly.
Franklin Zimring quoted in San Jose Mercury News, January 23, 2013
Getting a thin layer of guns off the streets matters, said Franklin Zimring…. “Gun policing in New York got much more effective as every kind of street policing got more effective,” he said.