(PR-DIPF) DUI/Traffic Course Series - Module Four: Traffic Stops, Race, and Navigating Media Coverage in High Profile Cases | Enhancing continuing education and professional development

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Course Description
On a typical day in the United States, police officers make more than 50,000 traffic stops. A 2020 study undertaken by the Stanford Open Policing Project found significant racial disparities in traffic stops across the United States. This course will explore the intersection between race and traffic stops and discuss policies and practices to mitigate these disparities. Best practices for navigating media coverage in high profile cases will also be discussed.

Credit Hours: 1.5

Learning Objective(s):
As a result of this course, participants will be able to:

Create awareness of racial disparities in traffic stops
Issue rulings and make findings mindful of implicit biases and procedural fairness
Describe best practices for handling media coverage issues that may arise in court

Contributors

Sharad Goel, Assistant Professor of Stanford University Management Science and Engineering and, by courtesy, of Computer Science, of Sociology and of Law

Sharad's primary area of research is computational social science, an emerging discipline at the intersection of computer science, statistics, and the social sciences. He's particularly interested in applying modern computational and statistical techniques to study social and political policies, such as stop-and-frisk, swing voting, filter bubbles, do-not-track, and media bias. Before joining Stanford, Sharad was a senior researcher at Microsoft Research and Yahoo Labs.

Sharad has written essays about policy issues from a statistical perspective. These essays include discussions of algorithms in the courts (in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Boston Globe); policing (in Slate and the Huffington Post); mass incarceration (in the Washington Post); election polls (in the New York Times); claims of voter fraud (in Slate, and also an extended interview with This American Life); and affirmative action (in Boston Review).
Hon. Ronda D. Holliman, Associate Judge, 6th Circuit

Judge Ronda Holliman received her appointment to Associate Judge for the Sixth Judicial Circuit Court in 2015.

Judge Holliman received her law degree from the University of Illinois, School of Law in 2000. Following law school, she was an Assistant State’s Attorney in Winnebago County, Rockford, from 2000 to 2008. In 2008, she became an Assistant United States Attorney for the Central District of Illinois in Urbana, and in 2013 became the Urbana Branch Supervisor for that office.

She has been an adjunct professor for the U of I, School of Law for several years where she teaches law students in the Trial Advocacy Program. She has also served as an instructor for the Police Training Institute at the University of Illinois. Judge Holliman is currently appointed to the Supreme Court of Illinois Judicial College Board of Trustees and is a member of the Illinois Judicial Conference.
Justice Michael B. Hyman, 1st Appellate District

The Illinois Supreme Court assigned Justice Hyman to the Appellate Court, First District, in January 2013. He joined the bench in 2006, the final appointee of Justice Mary Ann G. McMorrow. In 2008, Justice Hyman won election to the Circuit Court. He has twice served as presiding justice of his Division.

Justice Hyman has a habit of getting involved in causes he cares about. Some of his many activities are former president of the Illinois Judges Association, the Chicago Bar Association, and the Decalogue Society of Lawyers. He also has served on several boards and bar committees including the Lawyers Trust Fund of Illinois, the ABA Coalition on Racial and Ethnic Justice (chair), the ISBA Bench & Bar Council (chair twice), and Scribes, the National Association of Legal Writers (current president). He also is a long-time member of the Illinois Judicial Ethics Committee.

As chair of the Lawyers Conference of the ABA’s Judicial Division, Justice Hyman initiated Perceptions of Justice to address issues involving the perceptions of the courts by people of color. He also is the former chairperson of the Illinois Judicial Conference Strategic Planning Committee and served on the Joint Task Force on Limited Scope Representation, which prepared a report to the Illinois Supreme Court that resulted in rule changes to bring about limited scope representation in Illinois.

Justice Hyman is a frequent lecturer, speaker, and writer on subjects ranging from law to Abraham Lincoln. He currently has a quarterly column in the Chicago Lawyer magazine, Judging History. He has been editor-in-chief of the CBA's flagship magazine, the CBA Record, for more than 20 years, and writes as column for it as well, Editor’s Briefcase.

A graduate of Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism and Northwestern School of Law, Justice Hyman served as an Assistant Illinois Attorney General in the Antitrust Division before joining Much Shelist, Chicago, where he managed a nationwide practice primarily involving the litigation of securities, antitrust, and consumer claims.
Hon. Alicia Washington, Associate Judge, 10th Judicial Circuit

Alicia Washington was appointed as an Associate Judge for the Tenth Judicial Circuit in January, 2016. Judge Washington currently presides in Traffic Court at the Peoria County Courthouse.

Alicia was an attorney for the Janssen Law Center. Her areas of concentration included personal injury cases and worker's compensation claims. She protected the rights of injured victims. A Peoria native, Alicia was an avid advocate for clients who were facing life-changing challenges. She began her legal career at Prairie State Legal Services in the Peoria office.

Alicia is a proud Peoria High School graduate. Washington earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Illinois in business administration, a Master's degree in leadership in human service administration from Bradley University, and a Juris Doctorate from Michigan State University.

Among her accomplishments, Washington graduated with distinction from Bradley University with a Masters in Leadership in Human Service Administration. She is a recipient of Peoria's 40 under 40; declared a rising star in Illinois Super Lawyers 2012; she was recognized in the Peoria Magazines InterBusiness Issues as one of the Women of Influence.

She served as a member of the Peoria County Bar Association, Illinois State Bar Association, Illinois Judges Association, Illinois Trial Lawyers Association, the American Association for Justice, the NBA Association, and has also served on the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism since 2017.

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Contributors

Sharad Goel, Assistant Professor of Stanford University Management Science and Engineering and, by courtesy, of Computer Science, of Sociology and of Law

Hon. Ronda D. Holliman, Associate Judge, 6th Circuit

Justice Michael B. Hyman, 1st Appellate District

Hon. Alicia Washington, Associate Judge, 10th Judicial Circuit