This fall, Houston voters will decide whether the Houston Police Department should deprioritize misdemeanor marijuana enforcement. The timing looks like a response to Ken Paxton. In 2024, he sued five Texas cities over their marijuana ordinances, citing a state law that bars cities from adopting policies that do not fully enforce drug laws. Then I … Read more
Top-down AI strategies can’t answer the questions that your team is asking. But a knowledge base can.
Online voter registration in Texas would not favor one party over the other, and we analyzed the data to back it up.
When people get sued for debt, most can’t afford a lawyer. In many states, they also can’t simply show up to court to defend themselves. They have to file a formal written answer within tight deadlines, sometimes paying hundreds of dollars in filing fees to participate in their own case. Only then will the court … Read more
Every fall, I cozy up with my mom to watch The Great British Bake Off. Together, we become armchair experts – spouting the merits of rough puff vs short crust pastry, chiding bakers who beat too much air out of their delicate meringues, and judge the judges’ judgments (Paul Hollywood always seems to find someone … Read more
Millions of Americans rely on weather alerts to keep them informed and safe, and part of that reliability is the knowledge that alerts are sent 24/7, whether people are awake or not. Recently, in collaboration with the Texas Disaster Information System (TDIS), January Advisors created an MVP for an automated weather alert map for the … Read more
Last month, I saw something that I can’t shake. It happened during a criminal record clearing conference in Philadelphia, in one of those law firm conference rooms with giant windows that make you feel like you’re floating above the city. We were discussing the technical aspects of record clearing. A group of about one hundred … Read more
Here at January Advisors, we’ve been expanding our research on civil courts to include not just evictions but also debt collection lawsuits. Consumer debt lawsuits, as they are also known, are among the most common cases in civil courts, often involving unpaid medical bills, credit card defaults, and overdue utility bills. Yet, their impact extends … Read more
At January Advisors, our passions run deep. On the surface, we are data nerds, but at our core, we are apple nerds. Whenever we get together, we conduct elaborate blind taste tests of different apple varieties. After slicing the apples, we slice the data, identifying the group’s favorite, least favorite, and most contentious apples. Want … Read more
For several years, we have collected Harris County eviction data from the courts every day, made it available on a real-time dashboard, and published several analyses of the data. Harris County has some of the best eviction court data available in the country, and as a result, we have been cleaning and sharing the data … Read more