Opening Remarks

Introductions and welcomes

• Lisa Wayne, Executive Director, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL)
• Jumana Musa, Director, NACDL Fourth Amendment Center
• Georgetown Center for Privacy and Technology

Genetic, Genotyping, and Code: Litigating Probabilistic Genotyping and Forensic Genetic Genealogy   

The field of DNA evidence continues to mutate. Probabilistic genotyping software (PGS) and Forensic Genetic Genealogy (FGG), which searches commercial DNA databases for familial matches, are increasingly being employed in criminal investigations. This panel will provide tools to challenge the evidence they generate, including what sorts of things you should ask for in discovery, and information about the companies providing these services.

• Nicola Morrow, Legal Fellow, NACDL Fourth Amendment Center
• Megan Graham, Director of the Technology Law Clinic, University of Iowa College of Law

Center For Privacy and Technology Report 

• Speaker TBD, Georgetown Center for Privacy and Technology

From the School to Prison Pipeline to a High-Tech Superhighway: School Surveillance and Its Impact on Juvenile Justice   

Surveillance tools and technologies have accelerated schools’ ability to feed students into the criminal legal system. This session will address the unique challenges that arise when representing young clients in a world where their actions are increasingly monitored. Panelists will discuss strategies to safeguard the rights of juveniles and the impact of surveillance on their legal outcomes.

• Clarence Okoh, Georgetown Center for Privacy and Technolog
• Kate Weisburd

Reimagining Technology’s Role in Juvenile Justice   

The criminal legal system increasingly leverages surveillance technology against our clients, especially young ones. Join us as we explore alternatives to technology in the juvenile justice space. 

• Jarrell Daniels, Project Director & Community Management Liaison, Columbia University Center for Justice

Decoding AI-Generated Police Reports: Implications for Criminal Defense  

Explore the emerging role of AI in creating police reports: the challenges, and opportunities, and Fourth Amendment implications. This session will provide insights into the accuracy and biases of AI-generated reports, equipping defense lawyers with the knowledge to effectively scrutinize and challenge this new form of evidence.

• Maneka Sinha, Professor, University of Maryland School of Law

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• Kentrell Owens
• Elizabeth Daniel Vasquez

Don’t Fence Me In: Constitutional Challenges to Geofence Warrants   

Geofence warrants search Google location history data belonging to millions of users to identify devices near the scene of a crime. Courts and commentators have differed on their constitutionality following the Supreme Court’s decision in Carpenter v. United States. Join this panel for a discussion of the ongoing legal challenges to law enforcement’s use of geofence warrants.

• Michael Price, Litigation Director, NACDL Fourth Amendment Center
• Paul Ohm

Defense Strategies for Obtaining Social Media Evidence   

Defense attorneys spend so much time trying to keep evidence out of court, we sometimes forget the importance of obtaining evidence helpful to our case. This is particularly true when it comes to getting social media evidence from companies like X, Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat who fight tooth and nail to defeat defense subpoenas, while providing the government with seemingly endless amounts of information. This presentation will provide defense attorneys with strategies on how to obtain social media evidence and challenge the barriers put up by these companies under the federal Stored Communications Act.

• Hanni Fakhoury, Partner, Moeel Lah Fakhoury LLP

Unmasking Facial Recognition Technology: Tactics for Defense Lawyers   

Facial recognition technology is increasingly utilized by law enforcement to identify people captured on video or in photos. Despite its widespread use the technology is fraught with issues related to reliability and inconsistencies in application. This panel will delve into the challenges of facial recognition cases, exploring the technology's limitations, legal implications, and effective strategies for contesting the evidence. 

• Clare Garvie, Resource and Training Counsel, NACDL Fourth Amendment Center
• Tamar Lerer, Deputy of the Forensic Science Unit, New Jersey Office of the Public Defender
• Dr. Michael King, Associate Professor, Florida Institute of Technology, College of Engineering and Science

Tiny Constables: Automatic License Plate Readers and the Fourth Amendment  

Automatic License Plate Readers have become a regular resource for police departments across the country. They have the potential to generate huge databases of location information that will be used against the criminally accused. Defense lawyers need to be equipped to raise challenges to ALPRs in their cases. Join our panelists for a better understanding of how these systems work, the law shaping the ALPR landscape, legal strategy, and a peak the new ways law enforcement use this technology.

• Sidney Thaxter, Senior Litigator, NACDL Fourth Amendment Center
• Nitin Kholi, Staff Scientist, UC Berkeley's Center for Effective Global Action

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• Speaker TBD

Fundamentals of AI, Generative AI, and Deepfakes and Some of the Evidentiary and Other Issues They Pose   

This panel will discuss what AI, Generative AI, and Deepfakes are, how they are made, and some of the evidentiary and other issues that may arise with AI-generated evidence, whether acknowledged to be such or not.

• Judge Paul Grimm, David F. Levi Professor of the Practice of Law and Director of the Bolch Judicial Institute, Duke Law School
• Dr. Maura Grossman, Research Professor, University of Waterloo School of Computer Science