Topic: team
Posts related to the Texas Justice Initiative team
Join Our Team
July 27, 2021TJI functions thanks to talented volunteers who work collaboratively to build and maintain our website and data
tools. Our team meets weekly – remotely and, when volunteers in Austin are comfortable doing so again,
in-person – and keep in touch during the week on Slack and email. We are lucky to have consisten... Read moreUsing Markdown and GitHub for Blogging - Part 1
May 16, 2021Our TJI volunteer team has grown over the last year. We have new volunteers who are working on various
projects. With this growth, I've started thinking about a blog where volunteers like myself can document and
publish our work easily and efficiently. Blogging is useful in many ways. First, it highlights a volunte... Read moreThis is How We Watchdog
December 21, 2020We frequently mention that we “watchdog” the data that we work with as much as possible, but I thought I’d peel
that back a bit. What do TJI’s oversight efforts look like? Each month, I get new data from the Texas Office of the
Attorney General reflecting the previous month's reported deaths in custody and shootings of and... Read more