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Excited for our next #webinar tomorrow 12/17 @ 10 AM PST/1 PM EST! The Power of Community: How to Engage Your Community to Improve Criminal Justice Outcomes Ft. Clinton Lacey, Raj Jayadev, Wesley Caines, Sarah Moore, & Seann Riley.... Register here: http://Uptrust.co/webinars DC Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services SV De-Bug Arkansas Justice Reform Coalition The Bronx Defenders #CJReform #CriminalJusticeReform

Bringing Probation Back to Its Rehabilitative Roots Excited to announce our first webinar ft. Brian Lovins, Ron Corbett, Scott MacDonald, & our very own Susan Rice! Register here: http://Uptrust.co/webinars... #ProbationReform #CriminalJusticeReform #Technology #CommunitySupervision

Just as flight risk is a myth for low-income defendants, a lot of "recidivism" is driven by poverty-related tech violations. To continue our mission to keep ppl out of jail, we are expanding to work w/community supervision departments to promote success rather than catch failure. To be clear, we'll be continuing our same client and community-oriented approach to technology that means our products will never geolocate or cost a cent to anyone navigating the criminal legal system. #CriminalJusticeReform #ProbationReform #ParoleReform #AntiGeolocation

Our Director of Partnerships wrote an #oped explaining how a judge's decision to set bail can be the equivalent of a death sentence with #COVID19 rapidly spreading in our jails and prisons. Check it out in USA TODAY

Uptrust has significantly reduced the failure to appear rate in multiple counties across the U.S. and sees up to $5 billion in potential savings for cash-strapped municipalities and state governments. See more details of our funding announcement on TechCrunch.

We are excited to announce new funding that allows us to improve our product and expand our reach! Looking forward to continuing to work with existing partners (and signing up some new ones!) to keep people out of jail who shouldn't be there.

Now, the text messages that the city sends to defendants reminds them of when they need to appear and that the consequences likely an arrest warrant for failing to show are worse than the fine they might receive in court. The effects of a warrant after missing court can be devastating, said Jeanette Boerner, first assistant public defender in Hennepin County. ‘Most people can survive one arrest,’ Boerner said. ‘But what they can’t survive is the constant disruption into ...their lives.’ ‘Now I’m arrested, now it is another [two days in jail],’ she added as a hypothetical example. ‘What if I get arrested on a Friday, now I’m not appearing until Monday. Where are the kids? Where do they go? It just pushes them back and back and back into not being able to move forward.’ http://ow.ly/vIdC50wE7Xi

Check out our feature in TechCrunch! #BailReform #TechForGood

In addition to the $9 billion wasted on unnecessary pretrial detention, $1 billion is spent issuing and enforcing Failures to Appear (FTAs).

Every year, it is estimated that counties spend $9 billion on unnecessary pretrial detention.

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Uptrust has successfully decreased the Failure to Appear rate by 75% in multiple jurisdictions.

Check out this Vox video that explains why #BailReform is so tricky!