Starting in September, we’ll be watching pretrial hearings across the state to monitor the implementation of the Pretrial Fairness Act. We need the following kinds of volunteers to help us process and analyze so much data:
20 Data Entry Volunteers (Late-September to Mid-November)Manually enter data into a Google Form from photos of court-watching forms
Match data forms that correspond to the same hearings based on dates, case numbers, and names
5 Law Student/Pro Bono Lawyer Volunteers (Mid-October to Late-November)Interpret court-watchers’ responses of the accused person’s charge(s) as standardized, formal charges
Research the outcomes and interpret the observations of specific cases with missing data
2 Data Expert Volunteers (Early-November to Mid-December)
Engage in discussions with our data team about analysis strategies and validity, reliability, and biasRead the RMarkdown file for data analysis to check our data processing and computer programming
