Data Specialist

Harris County Public Defender's Office Data SpecialistThe Harris County Public Defender's Office seeks a full-time Data Specialist to help build and maintain the office's law enforcement accountability database through Techtivist. This is a data-focused position requiring strong skills in data collection, organization, quality control, and analysis. The Data Specialist will work with complex records and bulk data related to law enforcement accountability. This position is responsible for transforming large, inconsistent, and often fragmented sources of information into accurate, structured, and searchable data. This work is critical to supporting attorneys, investigators, and policy staff in identifying officer credibility issues, patterns of misconduct, impeachment information, and other data that assists in client representation and broader efforts to improve the criminal legal system.Duties and Responsibilities:Maintain and update the office's Techtivist database.Collect, clean, structure, and validate data from public records, court records, civil lawsuits, agency rosters, disciplinary records, attorney submissions, case materials, and online sources.Work with spreadsheets, databases, PDFs, scanned records, and other structured and unstructured data sources.Extract and parse information from documents using OCR, PDF extraction, and other data-processing tools.Identify and resolve duplicate records, inconsistent officer names, missing identifiers, conflicting information, and other data-quality issues.Link records across datasets, including rosters, lawsuits, complaints, disciplinary records, Brady disclosures, and case-related information.Write or run scripts, when appropriate, to clean, transform, match, or import data into usable formats.Assist with database structure, data-entry protocols, source tracking, confidentiality designations, and quality-control workflows.Prepare, track, and organize public information requests for law enforcement rosters, command structures, policies, misconduct records, and related data.Query data and prepare reports, spreadsheets, summaries, visualizations, and other work products for attorneys and staff.Protect confidential, privileged, sealed, or otherwise sensitive information.Assist with user support, troubleshooting, documentation, and other Techtivist-related tasks.Perform other tasks as assigned.Harris County is an Equal Opportunity Employer.