The UnLocked Project Book Scholarship for COIP

The UnLocked Project Book Scholarship for COIP

 The UnLocked Project is a student organization at the University of Maryland - College Park dedicated to supporting and advocating for children affected by parental and familial incarceration. The UnLocked Project aims to provide support by hosting peer support groups offered to affected students, as well as hosting awareness campaigns and creating useful resources.

This year, UnLocked plans to offer four $200 book scholarships each semester to eligible students to help offset the costs of higher education. Eligible students must be enrolled at the University of Maryland - College Park for the 2025-2026 academic year, have been impacted by familial incarceration, and demonstrate financial need. Applications are due SEPTEMBER 26th, 2025.

University Police Officer I – Private | University of Maryland Police Department

 

University Police Officer I – Private
Location: College Park, MD
Salary: $62,359.73
Closing Date: January 31, 2026

UMPD is a full-service, legislated police agency that serves the myriad needs of the students, staff, and visitors within its jurisdiction. UMPD has an authorized strength of 104 sworn officers. Every sworn officer meets the requirements set forth by the Maryland Police & Correctional Training Commission (MPCTC). UMPD is a fully accredited (CALEA) law enforcement agency whose members serve and protect 365 days a year, 24 hours a day.


UMPD is the only university police department in the state and one of a relatively few departments state-wide to offer a fully certified entry level Police Training Academy. UMPD is also the only non-county organization state-wide to operate a full service 911 Emergency Communications Center.


Current units include vehicle patrol, bicycle patrol, motorcycle patrol, K-9 patrol, Criminal Investigations, and training academy.

Selection Process:

The selection process utilized by the University of Maryland Police Department is thorough and complete. The following are the components of the selection process. These must be completed by every applicant. Depending on the number of applicants, vacancy status and the individual applicants themselves, the entire process could take anywhere from 3-9 months from the date of initial on-line application. Applicants not chosen for the position may be eligible to reapply for future positions after one year, as long as they have not been eliminated permanently through the existing screening and review processes. Must be a U. S. Citizen, possess a HSD or GED and be 21 years of age by the end of the 6 month academy.

• Application
• Physical Agility Testing
• Written Test
• Personal History Statement
• Oral Board Interview
• Background Investigation
• Polygraph Test
• Conditional offer of employment
• Physical Exam, Psychological Exam, and Drug Screening

Background Process:

http://www.umpd.umd.edu/employment

• Complete the Personal History Statement Packet (PHS)
• Information Release Authorization Form MUST be notarized
• Completed PHS may be mailed to or delivered by hand to Police Headquarters, located at:
• 7569 Baltimore Avenue, College Park, MD 20742
• Must be in a sealed envelope addressed Attn: “Training Unit”

Please contact a member of the Recruitment Staff with any questions at recruiting@umpd.umd.edu or, 301-405-5727.

Restorative Justice and the Community - Study Abroad Spring Break

Course Title: SPHL410: Social and Restorative Justice in the Community: Histories of Healing in Costa Rica

Dates: March 13, 2026-March 22, 2026

Deadline to Apply: September 30th.

Faculty:  Dr. Shannell Thomas, Dept Chair of Criminal Justice at Bowie State University and Dr. Amy Morgan, Family Health, University of Maryland School of Public Health. 

Find out more and apply here as a UMD student.

Want to hear more? Join an info session? Not sure and want advice? Email Beth at bdc1@umd.edu. 

About the Program

This short-term immersive study abroad course in Costa Rica invites students from the University of Maryland and Bowie State University to collaboratively explore the intersections of social justice, family and community health, restorative justice, and identity from the larger Costa Rican perspective and through the Afro-Costa Rican experience. Set predominantly in the culturally rich Limón province of Costa Rica and its surrounding regions, the course explores Afro-Costa Rican histories, voices, and strategies of resistance in the ongoing struggles for equity, justice, sovereignty, dignity, and the right to health and well-being.

Bilingual Legal Advocate | House of Ruth Maryland

Bilingual Legal Advocate
Location: Rockville, MD
Salary: $22.16 per hour



Position Summary: The House of Ruth Maryland Domestic Violence Legal Clinic (the Clinic) provides free legal services to survivors of intimate partner violence in order to help them gain safety and independence from their abusive partners. The Clinic seeks applicants who are passionate about ending domestic violence and public service. This is an entry-level position which offers extensive training in working with survivors of domestic violence, the dynamics of domestic violence, and interviewing techniques.


Position Description: The Legal Advocate – Protective Order Advocacy and Representation Project (POARP) is the first point of contact for survivors of domestic violence who are seeking legal services for protective order and family law cases. Legal advocates conduct detailed interviews with potential clients to assess their legal needs, determine their history of abuse, and provide lethality assessment, safety planning and referrals. Legal advocates work with the Clinic’s attorneys to provide legal information to clients and connect clients with the attorneys for representation in protective order and family law cases. The Legal Advocate works on-site in the Clinic’s offices located in Rockville Circuit Court and Silver Spring District Court, which enables the Legal Advocate to provide immediate legal intervention to clients on a walk-in basis and to develop meaningful connections to courthouse personnel.


Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provide high-quality, trauma-informed services to survivors of intimate partner violence.
• Conduct comprehensive consultations with potential clients, which include a thorough interview about recent and past incidents of abuse, safety planning, lethality assessment, and referrals to appropriate community and legal resources.
• Provide prompt, compassionate services to clients on a walk-in basis and via phone.
• Maintain the Clinic’s client database and systems used for tracking clients’ cases.
• Other duties as assigned.

Investigative Paralegal | Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law

Investigative Paralegal
Location: Washington, DC
Salary: $64,000 - $81,089.37



The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law is one of the nation’s leading national racial justice legal organizations. Formed in 1963 at the request of President John F. Kennedy, the Lawyers’ Committee uses legal advocacy to achieve racial justice, fighting inside and outside the courts to ensure that Black people and other people of color have the voice, opportunity, and power to make the promises of our democracy real.


About the Role:
The Investigative Paralegal will perform a variety of investigative tasks and provide support to Lawyers’ Committee attorneys during all stages of litigation, and on programmatic initiatives, advocacy and policy projects, and other activities. This position will work with the Criminal Justice Project and one or more substantive project area(s), based on need, and will work closely with the project teams.

What You’ll be Doing:
Responsibilities of the Investigative Paralegal include but are not limited to:

• Prepare interview questions and conduct client outreach and interviews.
• Serve as liaison between The Lawyers’ Committee, clients and witnesses.
• Conduct factual research, including public records requests using various public and private databases.
• Compose public education materials, including reports, brochures, and social media pages.
• Manage and organize case files, case dockets, litigation calendars and ECF and PACER accounts.
• Review and edit filings and exhibits, including formatting, proofreading, cite-checking, and creating tables of authorities and tables of contents.
• Organize discovery requests and responses, coordinate depositions, schedule meetings, and other related tasks.
• Review and draft legal documents, such as pleadings, motions, briefs, affidavits, extension requests, and correspondence according to judicial procedures.
• Adhere to court and local rules, and internal court operating procedures, including deadlines.
• Provide administrative and other support to attorneys for hearings, trials, expert interviews, depositions, oral arguments, coalitions, and speaking engagements.
• Prepare internal reports, including weekly updates, board books, grant and development, lobbying hours and project tracking.
• Assist attorneys with processing bar/court memberships.
• Maintain team calendar and update organization calendar.
• Coordinate travel arrangements for attorneys and clients.
• Other duties and special projects as assigned.

Intern | Courtwatch PG - Life After Release

 

Intern
Location: Suitland, MD & PG County Courts

Courtwatch PG is looking for multiple interns to support their Accountability and Database Committees. Courtwatch PG is a growing community of volunteers from Prince George’s County, Maryland and the surrounding Washington, D.C. Metropolitan area — and beyond. We observe bail hearings in PG County District Court to document our county’s policies in action and to hold judicial actors accountable for injustice in the court system. Courtwatch PG is powered by Life After Release, and founded and led by formerly incarcerated Black women. We courtwatchers represent all ages and backgrounds. We are joined by the call to anti-racist action and by faith in abolitionist futures.

Three internship opportunities are available:

Courtwatch Student Intern: As a Courtwatch Student Intern, you will play a vital role in promoting transparency in Maryland’s courtrooms. This opportunity consists of attending and observing bond hearings, taking detailed notes, and flagging potential injustices. By serving as an independent community observer, you will help shine a light on practices that often go unseen.

What you will do: Attend scheduled hearings, record accurate observations, and report findings to the Accountability Committee for review. You will help identify patterns such as judicial misconduct, unlawful detention, or barriers to due process.

Skills you need: Attention to detail, strong note-taking skills, reliability, and an interest in justice reform. No legal background is required—training and guidance will be provided.

Letter Writing Student Intern: As a Letter Writing Student Intern, you will directly contribute to holding the legal system accountable through advocacy. This role consists of reviewing flagged hearings, discussing findings with the Accountability Committee, and helping draft professional letters addressed to judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys, elected officials, and law enforcement. These letters challenge unlawful practices and call for fairer pretrial decisions.

What you will do: Participate in biweekly committee meetings, collaborate with peers to refine advocacy letters, and ensure concerns are communicated clearly to decision-makers. Your writing will have a direct impact on advancing accountability in Maryland’s courts.

Skills you need: Strong writing and editing skills, critical thinking, and the ability to articulate legal or procedural concerns. Students passionate about law, advocacy, or social justice will find this role especially meaningful.

Data Analysis Student Intern: As a Data Analysis Student Intern for our yearly report, you will help transform courtroom observations into meaningful advocacy by collecting and analyzing data. This role consists of entering hearing notes, tracking the number and types of advocacy letters sent, and identifying systemic trends. Your work will help inform reports, community updates, and policy recommendations.

What you will do: Organize and create graphics from data trends, analyze recurring issues in bond hearings, and contribute to reports that highlight systemic injustices. You will help translate individual cases into broader evidence-based calls for reform.

Skills you need: Strong organizational and data entry skills, familiarity with spreadsheets or databases, and the ability to recognize patterns in both numbers and narratives. An interest in research, policy, or data-driven advocacy is a plus.

If you are interested in any of these positions, please send an email to aly@lifeafterrelease.org

Judiciary Clerk | Maryland Judiciary

Judiciary Clerk
Location: Rockville, MD
Job ID: 12874
Salary: $50,324
Closing Date: September 4, 2025



Essential Job Functions:

This is an entry-level clerical position performing case processing duties and responsibilities daily which entails a high volume of data entry work for the civil department of the Montgomery County District Court. Greets the general public and court related personnel and assists with information about cases, proper completion of court forms, or explaining court policies and procedures by telephone or in person. Performs other duties as assigned.


Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Receive filings/new cases, check to ensure filings meet requirements of rules and fees associated with filing. Distribute filings to appropriate desk/queue. Assist customers by telephone and at office counter, provide information within office guidelines. Assist and perform clerk duties in other sections, as needed.
• Retrieve files from file room for pleadings. File cases that have been updated.
• Perform other duties as assigned to include, but not limited to, providing backup cashier duties.

Analyst 1, CyberTipline | National Center for Missing & Exploited Children

 

Analyst 1, CyberTipline
Location: Alexandria, VA
Requisition Number: 606
Salary: $58,000



GENERAL DESCRIPTION:
Position is responsible for providing overall analysis and case related support for CyberTipline reports submitted by Electronic Service Providers (ESPs), including the triage of incoming reports, identifying links between reported information, and making reports available to law enforcement agencies per ECD policy.

CyberTipline reports may contain graphic pornographic content or links to pornographic content online depicting minors and/or adults. Child sexual abuse material (CSAM) includes images, videos, and text describing child sexual exploitation. Such assistance requires an employee that can handle exposure to sensitive content, demonstrates a high level of accuracy and thoroughness in their work product, and thrives in a fast-paced environment.


ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Conduct background research on CyberTipline reports received from Electronic Service Providers (ESPs), using both internal and external sources of information, in an effort to reduce child sexual exploitation.
• Review, triage, and process incoming reports and related information concerning suspected child sexual exploitation, with special attention to time-sensitive details, following established guidelines and make reports available to law enforcement agencies per ECD policy.
• Respond to written and verbal requests for Technical Assistance and information from law enforcement, external parties, and other NCMEC divisions, to include answering the CyberTipline phone line and monitoring CyberTipline email accounts.
• Determine methods, techniques, plans, parameters, and approaches to be used in conducting online queries utilizing available databases.
• Monitor and maintain electronic files on reports and cases within the CyberTipline.
• After becoming certified on CyberTipline Report processing and Technical Assistance Requests, maintain acceptable pace and quality of CyberTipline report processing.
• Manage individual queue within the CyberTipline to ensure deadlines are met.
• Conduct tours of NCMEC for visiting law enforcement and other guests to promote public awareness of the CyberTipline and activities to counter child sexual exploitation.
• Attend internal trainings on an as needed basis.
• Other duties as assigned.
• Conform with and abide by all regulations, policies, work procedures, and instructions, including the ECD Mission and Values.
• Promote and exhibit loyalty to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and the cause of protecting children worldwide.
• Promote a professional image.
• Communicate with co-workers, NCMEC management, the public, law enforcement officials, and other agencies in a courteous and professional manner.
• Respond promptly when returning telephone calls and replying to correspondence.