About a three weeks ago, a blog post I wrote about my experience scraping and analyzing public court records data to find dirty cops got very popular on r/privacy.<p>https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/gm8xfq/if_cops_can_watch_us_we_should_watch_them_i/<p>As a result, I started a slack channel for others who were interested in scraping public court records, in an effort to create the first public repository of full county level court records for as many counties as possible.<p>Now, less than a month later, 2,300+ journalists, data scientists, developers, and activists have joined.<p>We are now organizing this grassroots project, and I couldn't be more proud or excited. The dream of having comprehensive, updating, fully open database of public court records that allow for police officer and judge level data oversight is perhaps the first step in restoring trust and implementing true accountability for policing.<p>We need even more help with this mission, specifically web scraping talent. If you are interested, join like minded folks here:<p>https://join.slack.com/t/policeaccessibility/shared_invite/zt-fb4fl1ac-~ChWSpFs2R_mDKIDyLj2Og<p>Roles/skills we need volunteers for: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Pc_Vk8HQ0TXWVQsnJnL6MH4JdxoDVFCWHPXSFja6vKg/edit#heading=h.gqys9pa9hr4g<p>New subreddit for this initiative: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataPolice/