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MYLAW SUMMER LAW ACADEMY READING LIST

Power Points



MONDAY, JUNE 24

POWER POINT #14th-amendment-mdvking-final.pptx
Please view this Power Point before the first day of Summer Law Academy, June 24.

Reading list for Monday, June 24.
Liptak, Adam.  “Justices Allow DNA Collection After Arrest.” The New York Times. June 3, 2013. May 22, 2019.

The Editorial Board. “DNA and Suspicionless Searches.” The New York Times. June 3, 2013. May 22, 2019.

Horton, Alex.  “A suspected killer eluded capture for 25 years. Then investigators got his aunt’s DNA.” The Washington Post. February 17, 2019. May 28, 2019.

​Murphy, Heather.  “Sooner or Later Your Cousin’s DNA Is Going to Solve a Murder.”  The New York Times.  April 25, 2019.  May 28, 2019.

​Gina Kolata and Heather Murphy.  “The Golden State Killer Is Tracked Through a Thicket of DNA, and Experts Shudder.” The New York Times. April 27, 2018. May 28, 2019.

Watch:
​https://www.khanacademy.org/partner-content/aspeninstitute/civil-liberties-privacy-constitution/modern-supreme-court-privacy-civil-liberties/v/dna-surveillance-and-maryland-v-king

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TUESDAY, JUNE 25
​POWER POINT #2 final-dna_genealogist-final.pptx

Reading list, Day 2, June 25.

•TCR Staff. “GEDmatch Puts DNA Database Off-Limits to Police: Will Cold Cases Get Colder?” The Crime Report. May 22, 2019.
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•Wang, Amy B. “Police revived a 1973 murder case by live-tweeting a girl’s last day.  Now, a DNA match has led to an arrest.” The Washington Post. February 20, 2019 at 4:51PM. May 22, 2019.

​​•Swenson, Kyle. “She swiped her co-worker’s Coke can. Police say it cracked a 28-year-old murder case.” The Washington Post. December 18, 2018. May 22, 2019

Watch:
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20190112/how-your-at-home-dna-test-results-could-solve-cold-cases

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAFJ3WfXhOY

https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2018/08/11/colorado-1984-cold-case-ewing-dna-link-sot-vpx.kmgh

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​POWER POINT #3 xy-chromosome-matches-and-family-tree.pptx
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Please view this Power Point the night before Summer Law Academy Day 2, June 25.

Family Tree Exercise -using the sample family tree, Canvas your relatives and see if you are able to fill-in your own family tree.  Use Power Point #3 to learn more about how genes are passed down from generation to generation.  This is in preparation for visiting Dr. Kennedy's lab on June 26. Please bring your family tree in on Wednesday.  Time allotted, we will do an hands on activity with your family tree.

Ethics- Read

Wee, Sui-Lee. “China Uses DNA to Track Its People, With the Help of American Expertise.” The New York Times.  Feb. 21, 2019.
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Joh, Elizabeth. “Want to See My Genes? Get a Warrant.” The New York Times.  June 11, 2019.
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26
​POWER POINT #4 stereotypes.pptx

Reading list, Day 3, June 27.
Burch, Audra D. S. "Who Killed Atlanta's Children?" The New York Times. April 30, 2019.

Farber, M. A. "Leading the Hunt in Atlanta's Murders." The New York Times.  Archives | 1981

Robert Keating and Barry Michael Cooper.  Feature, "A Question of Justice." December 29, 2015.

Website Printouts
25 Wrongly-Convicted Felons Exonerated by New Forensic Evidence.

Cleared by Forensics:  Innocent People Set Free by Science.

The Innocence Project: DNA Exonerations in the United States.

Video
https://www.foxnews.com/us/atlanta-child-murders-evidence-to-be-re-examined-by-investigators
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iwUoJKfiPQ

​THURSDAY, JUNE 27
POWER POINT #5 citiwatch.pptx

Read/View: 

https://www.baltimorepolice.org/community/citiwatch-community-partnership-overview

Memo: Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services. Maryland Image Repository System. December 2017.

Here is a memo with more info on MIRS if you would like to read it.

Watch:
WBALTV

WJZ

WJZ

Police used facial recognition technology to help identify uncooperative suspect in Capital Gazette shooting.

Extra Additional reading & viewing:
Singer, Natasha. “Microsoft Urges Congress to Regulate Use of Facial Recognition.” The New York Times. July 13, 2018.

Orenstein, James.  “I’m a Judge.  Here’s How Surveillance Is Challenging Our Legal System.” June 13, 2019.

O’Neill, James.  “How Facial Recognition Makes You Safer.” The New York Times. June 9, 2019.

Chokshi, Niraj.  “How Surveillance Cameras Could Be Weaponized With A.I.” The New York Times. June 13, 2019.

Pichai, Sundar. “Google’s Sundar Pichai: Privacy Should Not Be a Luxury Good.” The New York Times.  May 7, 2019.

Watch:

NBC LEARN

Modern Surveillance and Privacy

C-Span Surveillance-In general

​POWER POINT #6 how_a_bill_becomes_law.pptx
Watch:
Schoolhouse Rock- How a Bill Becomes a Law

How a Bill Becomes a Law: Crash Course Government and Politics #9

Read:
Ghaffary, Shirin. “San Francisco’s facial recognition technology ban, explained.” Vox. May 14, 2019, 7:06pm EDT.

Here is a little bit about the Senators.
https://www.blunt.senate.gov/
https://www.schatz.senate.gov/

Here is where you find out the status of a Bill:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/847
You can see it is “in committee” and not yet passed into law.

Here is the Bill S. 847
“To prohibit certain entities from using facial recognition technology to identify or track an end user without obtaining the affirmative consent of the end user, and for other purposes.”




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