You can contact the following organization: RAICES https://www.raicestexas.org/ They were actually working on an “intake app” not sure how far they went, with the permanent state of emergency we’re in in Texas regarding refugee families..
Regards / Saludos / Grato Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes > On Jun 20, 2018, at 4:00 PM, Yosem Companys <ycompa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 >> > > -- > Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of > list guidelines will get you moderated: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, > change to digest, or change password by emailing the moderator at > zakwh...@stanford.edu.
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