Community-centric Building of Digital Infrastructures Against Systemic Oppression: G2A police misconduct complaint support system

Digital infrastructure can make visible the problems hidden in policies that maintain systematic racism and oppression. However, these infrastructures are difficult to design because the technology workers that build them are often too far removed from those with lived experiences of oppression. Grief to Action pPUC is a novel community data-science engagement network that is building an online platform to help citizens navigate the police accountability process. The tool will collect municipal level police union contracts and misconduct complaint processes in one place, allowing anyone the ability to search and compare these previously highly fragmented and opaque information across time and space. We build upon the work and experiences of our partners such as Campaign Zero, Take Action Mon Valley, CONNECT, Western Pennsylvania Regional Data Center, and Data for Black Lives.