The American Association of Law Libraries published a review of access to justice efforts by leading educational institutions, with a special focus on Fordham Law School’s Parole Information Project.
At Fordham Law School, we have partnered with Fordham’s Criminal Defence Clinic to create the Parole Information Project, the first of what we hope will be many projects under the banner of A2I = A2J (Access to Information equals Access to Justice).
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[The Parole Information Project is] a curated database designed to shine light on the parole system in New York by giving scholars and advocates access to documents and data about the system that had never before been systematically collected, described, or made available. Instead of scholars and advocates cobbling together data from disparate sources and passing documents among one another, librarians at Fordham Law School created such a database by using the law school’s Digital Commons-based institutional repository, FLASH.