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25 Nov 2015, 3:30 am
The Laura and John Arnold Foundation has announced that it’s donating $1.9 million to develop a search engine for the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. [read post]
14 Aug 2012, 10:00 am
The Innocence Project is very excited to be featured in the Laura and John Arnold Foundation's just launched Giving Library. [read post]
27 Jun 2015, 10:07 am
 After two years of testing, the formula, developed at a cost of $1.2 million by the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, is being rolled out to 21 more jurisdictions, including states like Arizona and New Jersey and cities like Chicago and Pittsburgh, the foundation announced on Friday. [read post]
14 Jul 2015, 5:56 am by Gritsforbreakfast
" So I suspect he was pleased as I was to see that the Texas-based Laura and John Arnold Foundation is funding a massive investigation by the American Association for the Advancement of Science into "the underlying scientific bases for the forensic tools and methods currently used in the criminal justice system," focusing on ten specific forensic disciplines:Bloodstain Pattern AnalysisDigital EvidenceFire InvestigationsFirearms and… [read post]
20 Dec 2013, 10:53 am by Gritsforbreakfast
This research brief (pdf) from the Laura and John Arnold Foundation summarizes research on pretrial detention and included a number of important findings. [read post]
17 Apr 2016, 9:02 am by Gritsforbreakfast
That story mentioned the little-discussed interest of the Arnold Foundation on forfeiture issues which piqued Grits' interest:The threat helped prompt the Laura and John Arnold Foundation in Houston to establish the Coalition for Public Safety last year.In an editorial for the Dallas Morning News last year, the Arnolds dared suggest that one reason no one in Texas government is eager to raise the bar for asset seizures is how much… [read post]
22 Jan 2018, 8:33 am by Jeff Welty
For example, Mecklenburg County uses a risk assessment developed by the Laura and John Arnold Foundation to help make pretrial release decisions. [read post]
23 Aug 2017, 6:02 am by Gritsforbreakfast
In that episode in San Francisco, a court employee entered mistaken data into a risk assessment developed by Texas' Laura and John Arnold Foundation and a released inmate committed a murder.That is indeed a terrible tragedy. [read post]
9 Aug 2016, 6:51 am by Gritsforbreakfast
 The Christian Science Monitor has a piece on the Laura and John Arnold Foundation's risk assessment model, for which Grits harbors high hopes. [read post]
20 Sep 2016, 3:32 pm by Rob McKinney
San Francisco and 30 other cities or counties have adopted a scoring system established by the Laura and John Arnold Foundation which uses nine factors to establish the bail bond amount. [read post]
20 Sep 2016, 3:32 pm by Rob McKinney
San Francisco and 30 other cities or counties have adopted a scoring system established by the Laura and John Arnold Foundation which uses nine factors to establish the bail bond amount. [read post]
28 Mar 2019, 10:52 am by Gritsforbreakfast
"The Texas Judicial Council proposed using risk assessments to reduce incarceration of low-risk offenders (the Office of Court Administration developed an instrument based on work by the Laura and John Arnold Foundation to create a version counties could use for free).The bail industry opposes use of risk assessments with the heat of a thousand suns and is investing big money in lobbying and communications strategies to undermine bail reform efforts.After the… [read post]
27 May 2020, 2:55 pm by Charissa Laisy
Judy and Howard Berkowitz Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP GFP Real Estate Haynes and Boone, LLP Kaplan, Hecker & Fink Donna Kenton, Samuel Goldberg & Sons Foundation Carol and Jonathan Lieber & Stephanie and Steven Rosen National Basketball Players Association Foundation Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP Amy and Joseph Perella Proskauer Rose LLP Stephen and Margaret Cook Schulte Winston & Strawn LLP Advocates Raanan Agus Arnold & Porter Kaye… [read post]
5 Sep 2016, 9:43 am by Gritsforbreakfast
" Give it a read.Risk assessment resourcesHeard of the Laura and John Arnold Foundation's risk assessment model but haven't dug into the details? [read post]
25 May 2017, 11:26 am by Alan J. Borsuk
Supported by grants from the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, based in Houston, researchers analyzed 1.5 million cases nationwide and concluded that a scoring system, based on analysis of nine factors, could provide good assistance in making decisions on whether to release defendants. [read post]
25 May 2017, 11:26 am by Alan J. Borsuk
Supported by grants from the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, based in Houston, researchers analyzed 1.5 million cases nationwide and concluded that a scoring system, based on analysis of nine factors, could provide good assistance in making decisions on whether to release defendants. [read post]
10 Jul 2016, 9:01 pm by Joseph Margulies
  The Laura and John Arnold Foundation, for instance, has developed a “criminal justice initiative,” the aim of which is “to reduce crime, increase public safety, and ensure the criminal justice system operates as fairly and cost-effectively as possible. [read post]