Researchers from Stanford and Oregon are asking the California Department of Corrections to stop withholding records on race and ethnicity. The researchers hope to use the data to devise an AI system to flag improperly influenced parole denials . (San Francisco Chronicle, May 22, 2020, by Megan Cassidy)
The EFF filed a lawsuit for the researchers. The researchers made their first request for the records in September of 2018, but the corrections department cited exemptions that a judge ruled in an earlier case did not apply to these records. (Electronic Frontier Foundation, May 20, 2020, press release)