Supporting the George Floyd Protests in Portland: Demonstrations, Legal Support, and Django Apps
summary
Portland organizers build a working Django app by June 12 to replace a spreadsheet, use a Scrapy scraper to pull Oregon State Court Records and Multnomah County Sheriff booking data, and map statute numbers to readable charges; the scraper batches case numbers to avoid the court site 550-row limit with batched case-number queries. The project supports hundreds of arrests, helps manage over $1 million raised for bail, enforces role-based access and background checks, and holds up under heavy volunteer onboarding.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:22Disclaimer
- 6:41Comic Rocket
- 7:56The Web App
- 13:20Django and Python
- 15:44Volunteers
- 18:21User Experience
- 23:26Burnout
- 25:20Legal Support
- 28:18Outro
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