Philadelphia Lawyers for Social Equity (PLSE) is a non-profit legal aid organization that focuses on helping people overcome the barriers they face as a result of criminal records.
The project we are currently working on is building out an expungement petition generator for PLSE. The application takes in PDFs of clients' criminal dockets and returns fully formatted petitions to expunge the clients' criminal records. Having a clear criminal record helps those clients to better find work, housing, and services.
This project is built with React.js, Django, PostgreSQL, and MySQL. A few other tools we use are the Parsimonious python library for parsing PDFs and Digital Ocean for deployment.
https://github.com/Philadelphia-Lawyers-for-Social-Equity/docket_dashboard (This may be marked private, join our Slack to connect with the #plse-expungement
team to learn how you can help.
https://www.plsephilly.org/
Roles needed
- Developers with React.js and Django skillsets
- Developers and data scientists with PostgreSQL and MySQL skillsets
- Don't fit the above? Join the slack channel, so we can find in something in the project for you!