The People’s Law Office (PLO), which had worked alongside activists and in the courts to hold the City to account, donated its files to the Pozen Center for Human Rights at the University of Chicago in 2017. Pozen, in turn, asked the Invisible Institute to digitize, curate, and publish the legal archive. Our goal is to make these digitized records accessible to the public and to complement the ecosystem of historicizing survivors’ stories of police torture in Chicago.
Read MoreInvisible Institute Wins Emmy /
The SHOWTIME documentary 16 Shots, co-produced by the Invisible Institute, received the 2020 Emmy for Outstanding Investigative Documentary.
Read More"Code of Silence" Published /
The Intercept publishes Jamie Kalven treatise on the “code of silence” within the Chicago Police Department— described not as a vague culture but as a set of institutional mechanisms central to the operation of the CPD.
Read MoreYouth Police/Project Director Chaclyn Hunt Talks Transparency, Police Accountability and Youth Engagement on Chicago Tonight /
Chaclyn Hunt is an attorney and the director of the Invisible Institute Youth/Police Project, which interviews black youth about their experiences with Chicago police. She coordinated a Youth/Police Conference at the University of Chicago Law School last year to report on youth experience with police.
Read More@CPDPbot Announced at #ChiHackNight /
@CPDPbot will check through its database of CPD police misconduct complaints and respond to tweets with a brief summary of the named officer's complaint history if it finds anything along with a link to that officer's profile on the Citizens Police Data Project.
Read MoreJamie Kalven Receives Ridenhour Courage Prize /
Jamie Kalven, founder and executive director of Chicago’s Invisible Institute, has just been named the winner of this year’s Ridenhour Courage Prize. He was cited for his “central role” in breaking the story of the death of Laquan McDonald at the hands of Chicago police.
Read MoreDarryl Holliday Profiles "The New Black Power" in Chicago Magazine /
Invisible Institute producer Darryl Holliday profiles Chicago's Black Lives Matter movement through one of its most prominent activist organizations, the Black Youth Project 100. The Chicago magazine piece is featured in the March issue and online here, with artwork from our partner, Illustrated Press.
Read MoreInvisible Institute Wins Knight News Challenge on Data /
Invisible Institute’s Citizens Police Data Project among 17 winners of the Knight News Challenge on Data at a convening at Civic Hall in New York. Each of the winners will receive a share of $3.2 million to develop their project, which seeks to answer the question: How might we make data work for individuals and communities?
Read More“Chicago After Laquan McDonald: Rebuilding the Trust" Panel /
Jamie Kalven was on a panel of journalists and policing professionals, January 7, 2016, at the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics. The conversation, “Chicago After Laquan McDonald: Rebuilding the Trust,” included retired St. Louis Chief of Police Daniel Isom, Chicago Sun-Times columnist Mary Mitchell and Kate Grossman as moderator.