That would be awesome! Thanks, Catherine. On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 1:58 PM, Catherine Forsman <cfors...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you for doing this! Let me contact someone I worked with > volunteering after Karina and who has a lot of knowledge about the > difficulties of coordinating separated families. The coordination effort is > quite difficult, but perhaps, even if one child finds their parent, it is > worth everything. > > Crowdsourcing is a very good way to think about it, and also mapping. > > Again, let me see if there is any advice I can gather from organizations > that do this in how it could get off the ground quickly, even if they can > simply let us know best practices. > > warm regards, > Catherine > > On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 3:10 PM, Yosem Companys <ycompa...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Note that I'm doing this in a personal capacity and NOT representing or >> speaking for Stanford in any way. >> >> This is just to kickoff a conversation... >> >> Suzanne has obtained a domain name to host a database to keep track of >> all of the kids who have been forcibly removed from their parents. We need >> to track down 10K+ children at 100 shelters in 14 states: >> http://www.businessinsider.com/children-in-custody-trump-administration- >> immigration-zero-tolerance-policy-2018-5. >> >> As Suzanne suggests, we need to figure out how not to enable stalkers or >> deporting authorities while simultaneously helping the children find their >> parents, and vice versa. Suzanne suggests something along the lines >> of anonymous lost child posting: If tip gets added, connect to legal >> services to screen and verify. She also suggests connecting searching >> parents with legal services and with people who have tips but not involving >> law enforcement. >> >> Christina suggests finding some good coders to scrape names off news >> articles. There are a lot of names already there. >> >> Organizations that could help: >> >> - *Southwest key*. Christina says that Southwest key has a database >> of all of the kids but won't provide the info. Does anyone have a good >> contact there? >> - *IRAP*. Lina suggests contacting IRAP: https://refugeerights.org/. >> Anybody have a contact there? >> - *ACLU*. Catherine suggests talking to the ACLU. I know we had >> several ACLU people on Liberationtech but from the tech angle. I don't >> know >> whether they're still on the list? >> - *RAICES*. Candace suggests we talk to RAICES. Anybody have a >> contact there? >> >> I reckon that a massive crowdsourcing effort will be needed. Some crisis >> mapping might be useful. >> >> A question for everyone on Liberationtech and related lists: How does >> this effort get off the ground quickly? >> >> Thanks, >> Yosem >> > >
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