P.S. Suzanne just informed me that the domain is Helpfind.us... On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 1:10 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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