INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
While most technology companies are building up a surveillance state to serve political powers and private profiteering, Uptrust is using
some of those same tools to make it easier to move people out of the criminal justice system.And the San Francisco-based startup has just
because they miss a court date or probation check-in, which can result in the revocation of bail or new criminal charges
Uptrust has worked to provide a messaging service between public defenders and clients that is designed to ensure clients show up to court
dates and the state avoids billions in unnecessary expenses.So far, the company has reduced by more than 50% failure to appear penalties in
the 50 state and county governments where it works
a belief that there was a large addressable market
reason, have been caught up in the criminal justice system
is, unarguably, good for society, and the founders think that it could be a huge business
than 60 million people with a criminal record
Uptrust is making a course correction through technology in the most obvious way: enabling communication and support through mobile devices
Wendy Schmidt, which backed the company
Davis, an investor in Uptrust and founder of Inherent Group, a leading ESG investor, in a statement
Criminal justice and law enforcement professionals gain back the hours spent dealing with the fallout of FTAs
tackle injustices in the ways law enforcement and the legal system operate in the United States Other companies like Appolition, founded by
an app and (more controversially) GPS monitoring.
