Project SEAPHE’s efforts to collect anonymous data from public agencies and universities are often thwarted by spurious privacy arguments. Recently, a media campaign surrounding the Netflix Prize database has put the future collection and use of anonymous data on even…

In January, the New York Times reported that “Law School Admissions Lag Among Minorities”. Relying exclusively on a study by Conrad Johnson, a professor at Columbia Law, the Times reported that the number of black and Mexican-American law school matriculants…

We have filed our opening brief in the public records lawsuit over our request for anonymized admissions data held by the California State Bar. The brief argues that the public has a constitutional and common law right of access to…

We have reached an agreement with the California State Bar to bifurcate the issues into two separate trial stages. The most novel and purely legal issues in the case, related to whether the State Bar has an obligation to provide…

Project SEAPHE along with co-plaintiffs California First Amendment Coalition and Joe Hicks of Community Advocates, Inc. re-filed suit against the California State Bar in Superior Court for the release of de-identified bar exam data. The suit was originally filed in…

Following the State Bar’s denial of a request for statistical records needed to study the effects of law school racial preferences, a team of researchers and the California First Amendment Coalition file suit to compel disclosure.

The United States Civil Rights Commission has scheduled a hearing for September 12, 2008, to explore reasons behind the relatively low number of minority scientists in the American workforce.  Dr. Richard Sander will be testifying at the hearing about mismatch…

The University of California’s Office of the President (UCOP) has agreed with Project Seaphe on a plan for the public release of anonymized student data.  The data, covering more than half-a-million students who sought admission to or attended the university…