Successfully litigating an RJA claim requires specific evidence of bias that can be difficult to uncover manually. The following tools are designed to meet this challenge by analyzing discovery for racialized language and identifying systemic disparities in criminal justice data.
Redo.io
Redo.io is an artificial intelligence-powered legal data and analytics platform that provides an open, free, and searchable database of individual-level prison sentences. Public defenders and district attorneys utilize Redo.io’s AI/ML models to identify those individuals serving excessive sentences for non-serious offenses for second look case reviews. This platform also includes tools for exploratory data queries, cohort identification, and preliminary analyses to correct systemic injustices within the criminal justice system.
Implementation:
The Office of the State Public Defender (OSPD): In partnership with Redo.io, OSPD has identified and sent letters advocating for resentencing to public defenders’ offices across California. Attorneys used Redo.io’s custom AL/ML models to assign “suitability scores” based on comparative analysis with their database of 95,000 prison sentences, prioritizing individuals eligible for resentencing under the state’s Second Look review process. By automating these processes, Redo.oi has enabled more efficient, direct action on unjust sentencing.
RJA Tool by Paper Prisons
This tool provides access to and analysis of criminal justice data to identify potential racial disparities across California counties and the state as a whole. Users can filter criminal justice incidents by year, county, type of criminal justice event, race, and specific offenses. Paper Prisons’ RJA tool has data to support a(3) and a(4) claims.
Measures for Justice
Provides AI-driven criminal justice data analytics that can reveal racial disparities in charging, bail, sentencing, and other decisions at the county level.
Recidiviz
Platform that uses machine learning to analyze criminal justice data and identify racial disparities in outcomes across different stages of the justice system.
DocWrangler by UC Berkeley’s EPIC lab
- Blog post by the Paper Prisons
- 5 min video demonstrating how to find epithets in police records with DocWrangler: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Q_2ZvGh78luzPZimG7mpDiSxGwxN2FQg/view?usp=sharing
Berkeley Tech & Justice Lab
A textual analysis tool that identifies instances of racialized language per claims A1 and A2 of the California Racial Justice Act.