NOTICE COALITION

No Tech Criminalization in Education (NOTICE)

 

About NOTICE Coalition

The mission of the NOTICE Coalition is to build a national movement to end the use of data and technology that surveils, polices, and/or criminalizes young people and their communities. These technologies include predictive policing, data-sharing agreements, facial recognition, social media monitoring, automated license plate readers, gang databases, school hardening, biometric surveillance, and student device monitoring, and so-called “early warning systems.” We recognize that these technologies intensify harm in Black, Brown, Indigenous, disabled, LGBTQIA+, and otherwise marginalized communities.

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The NOTICE Coalition:

● Expands our national network of communities actively resisting and refusing youth data criminalization, school hardening, and related harms across educational institutions and other systems that serve youth and young adults.

● Documents and disseminates the stories, challenges, and victories of community resistance to youth data criminalization, including the PASCO Coalition and Stop the Cradle to Prison Algorithm Coalition.

● Builds public awareness to identify and confront the harms of data-driven technologies and techniques that criminalize youth and young adults.

● Uplifts youth-led, community-driven ideas, strategies, and solutions that build school safety and community safety without law enforcement or other punitive systems.

● Builds capacity of educators, caregivers, advocates, and other allies to identify and resist youth data criminalization.

● Co-creates innovative legal and policy solutions with youth and young adults that integrate civil rights, human rights, and data privacy rights into 21st century protections against data criminalization.

Leadership Team

Clarence Okoh, J.D. (pronouns: he/him/his)

Clarence Okoh is a civil rights attorney and racial justice advocate whose work addresses the impact of mass criminalization, algorithmic racism, and economic divestment in Black communities, with a particular focus on Black youth and young adults. Clarence is Senior Policy Counsel at the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP), where he leads the organization’s cross-team policy agenda to advance abolitionist approaches to community safety by challenging systems that surveil and punish economically marginalized Black, brown and Indigenous youth and their communities. He is also an inaugural member of the Just Tech Fellows at the Social Science Research Council. In this capacity Clarence leads an interdisciplinary advocacy project that blends legal research and analysis, public policy advocacy, and public education strategies to challenge the use of algorithmic technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI), that criminalize Black and brown youth and systematically violate their civil and human rights.

Ceema Samimi, Ph.D. (pronouns: they/them/theirs)

Ceema Samimi (they/them) is a restorative and transformative justice practitioner, abolitionist, and academic focused on how societal structures and systems impact the power of young people. Ceema’s research is broadly grounded in the idea of youth power - young people's ability to shape the communities and world they live in. As such, their work examines the intersections of service organizations, societal systems, criminalization, and race, and how these intersections impact young people. Ceema believes that institutions such as the U.S. education system are responsible for uplifting the power of young people and that the school-to-prison pipeline is one of the most egregious displays of youth disempowerment. Ceema is a mixed-race first generation scholar and parent of two cats and one dog.

Marika Pfefferkorn (pronouns: she/her/hers)

As an interdisciplinary and cross-sector thought leader and community advocate, Marika is a change agent working to transform systems and scale successes across education, technology, civic leadership and entrepreneurship. Ms. Pfefferkorn works along the continuum from community to theory to practice, integrating collective cultural wisdom and applying a restorative lens to upend punitive conditions in education, and to reimagine education through a liberatory lens. She has successfully co-led campaigns to end discriminatory suspension practices in Minnesota schools, to remove the presence of police in Minneapolis and St. Paul schools, to increase investment in indigenous restorative practices in education and community settings and successfully advocated for a Ethnic Studies requirement in Minnesota schools. Marika has cofounded and led the Solutions not Suspensions Coalition, and Education for Liberation MN Network, and participates as a member of the Safety Not Surveillance Coalition and Dignity in Schools Campaign.

Chelsea Barabas, Ph. D. (pronouns: she/her/hers)

Dr. Chelsea Barabas is a community-centered researcher working on a wide range of issues related to the ways that technology serves as a battleground for transformational social change and racial justice in the United States. Much of her recent work examines the ways that student surveillance and digitized school security measures push marginalized students out of school and into the criminal legal system. Chelsea collaborates with local abolitionist and youth organizations to uncover the downstream consequences of digitized surveillance in the classroom, as well as develop alternative visions of student safety and well-being. Formerly, Chelsea was a Technology Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and a research scientist for the AI Ethics and Governance Initiative at the MIT Media Lab.

Ed Vogel (pronouns: He/Him/His)

Ed is the Senior Policy Researcher with the Surveillance Resistance Lab. He has more than fifteen years of experience in movement spaces and organizing in Chicago as a member of Lucy Parsons Labs, Chicago Community Bond Fund, Believers Bail Out, and Free Us: the Chicago EM Collective. Ed is currently a board member with Chicago Torture Justice Center, Corporate Accountability Lab, Ecosystems of Care, and DontCallThePolice.com.