Civic Meetup #567: Insights from the Tracking (In)justice Project
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Topic: Insights from the Tracking (In)justice Project
Last year, 61 people died in interactions with the police or in incarceration facilities across the country. Historically, we lacked means for systematically tracking even basic details of the circumstances around these deaths, including rudimentary demographic information (who was killed?), geographic (where were they killed?), as well as investigative outcomes (were any officials held responsible?), and journalistic coverage (has there been any reporting about this)? With a team of researchers spanning Carleton, McGill, Queens, UofT, and UBC, we are developing the Tracking (In)Justice project to systematically and transparently catalogue the circumstances around these deaths, drawing on a mix of sources from government releases, news reporting, and meticulous case-by-case fact checking, tracking these critical details from 2000 onwards.
Speaker: Farhan Samir (in-person)
Farhan Samir is a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Postdoctoral Fellow in the Computer Science department at the University of Toronto. He earned his PhD at the University of British Columbia, where his work was supported by an NSERC Doctoral Fellowship, a UBC Public Scholars Initiative award, and the 2024-25 UBC Department of Statistics Award in Data Science. He was formerly a researcher at NVIDIA, Amazon Science, and the Allen Institute for AI.
Agenda:
7:00-7:20 Welcome and Introductions
7:20-7:50 Presentation and Q&A/discussion
7:50-9:00 Breakout groups
Code of Conduct: https://civictech.ca/about-us
Check in with us on the Civic Tech Toronto Slack: https://link.civictech.ca/chat
About Us:
Our weekly civic meetups bring together Torontonians (designers, coders, urban planners, government staff, mappers, policy-makers, students, communications strategists, community organizers, and more) who share an interest in making Toronto more responsive, prosperous, sustainable, and equitable through design, tech, and data.
Come and be part of it!
For more info: https://civictech.ca
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Civic Meetup #567: Insights from the Tracking (In)justice Project
Topic: Insights from the Tracking (In)justice Project
Last year, 61 people died in interactions with the police or in incarceration facilities across the country. Historically, we lacked means for systematically tracking even basic details of the circumstances around these deaths, including rudimentary demographic information (who was killed?), geographic (where were they killed?), as well as investigative outcomes (were any officials held responsible?), and journalistic coverage (has there been any reporting about this)? With a team of researchers spanning Carleton, McGill, Queens, UofT, and UBC, we are developing the Tracking (In)Justice project to systematically and transparently catalogue the circumstances around these deaths, drawing on a mix of sources from government releases, news reporting, and meticulous case-by-case fact checking, tracking these critical details from 2000 onwards.
Speaker: Farhan Samir (in-person)
Farhan Samir is a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Postdoctoral Fellow in the Computer Science department at the University of Toronto. He earned his PhD at the University of British Columbia, where his work was supported by an NSERC Doctoral Fellowship, a UBC Public Scholars Initiative award, and the 2024-25 UBC Department of Statistics Award in Data Science. He was formerly a researcher at NVIDIA, Amazon Science, and the Allen Institute for AI.
Agenda:
7:00-7:20 Welcome and Introductions
7:20-7:50 Presentation and Q&A/discussion
7:50-9:00 Breakout groups
Code of Conduct: https://civictech.ca/about-us
Check in with us on the Civic Tech Toronto Slack: https://link.civictech.ca/chat
About Us:
Our weekly civic meetups bring together Torontonians (designers, coders, urban planners, government staff, mappers, policy-makers, students, communications strategists, community organizers, and more) who share an interest in making Toronto more responsive, prosperous, sustainable, and equitable through design, tech, and data.
Come and be part of it!
For more info: https://civictech.ca
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Suggest a Speaker:
Interested in speaking at a future event, or know someone who'd be a great speaker? We'd love to hear from you: https://link.civictech.ca/speaker-suggestions
Suggest a Venue:
Have a space that could host up to 80 civic-minded folks for an evening? Consider recommending your venue: https://link.civictech.ca/venue-suggestions
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