JCRED Honors Its 2021 Best Notes Awards Winners

Members of JCRED came together to celebrate Kathryn O’Brien and Meagan Shantz.

The Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development honored Research and Symposium Director Kathryn O’Brien, Best Notes Award winner, and Executive Notes and Comments Editor Meagan Schantz, runner-up in a ceremony on October 20.

Kathryn O’Brien was named JCRED’s 2021 Best Notes Award Winner.

O’Brien’s Note, "Camera-Enforced Streets: Creating an Anti-Racist System of Traffic Enforcement," examines how modern traffic enforcement creates severe economic burdens for Black drivers and advocates for removing traffic enforcement from police control in favor of an automated system.

Meagan Schantz’s Note, “Technology’s War on Terror: The Need for Platform Accountability in the Wake of a National Crisis,” examines the scope of liability for social media platforms in monitoring terrorist content, through the lens of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act and the Anti-Terrorism Act.