Valena Beety
@valenabeety.bsky.social
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Criminal Law Prof, Indiana University Maurer (@iumaurerlaw.bsky.social). Post-Conviction Litigator, Indiana Innocence Project. Writer, MANIFESTING JUSTICE. Queer and inspired by Rumi: “let the beauty of what we love be what we do.”
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Intro post! I’m Valena Beety, law prof at Indiana University (Maurer), board member starting up the Indiana Innocence Project, and I write about wrongful convictions of women and queer people. Did you know 75% of female exonerees were wrongly convicted where no crime occurred? New book in 2025.
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I’m super excited too! 💚
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I'm so excited about this year's line up for our external faculty workshop series, y'all! We'll be welcoming Guy-Uriel Charles (Harvard), @pbaronmiller.bsky.social, @richardalbert.bsky.social, @valenabeety.bsky.social 1/2
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🎧 AI is changing how we work, how we make art, and how we access healthcare. @jennoliva.bsky.social joined Taonga Leslie on #BrokenLaw to explore how AI and algorithms are being used to restrict access to healthcare & how lawyers and patients can advocate for greater fairness and transparency.
Episode 181: AI and Health Equity | ACS
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jennoliva.bsky.social
A huge thanks to @brnnewsfacts.bsky.social for interviewing me about my recently published Indiana Law Journal essay, Regulating Healthcare Coverage Algorithms available here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Our latest on ways that states can provide better heath data sanctuaries to at-risk populations (spoiler alert: stop sharing data with health care criminalization states & stop collecting sensitive healthcare info). Thanks to my co-authors @lizchiarello.bsky.social & Wendy Bach
Four Things States Can Do To Further Protect Health Care Privacy | Health Affairs Forefront
As experts in health, law, and privacy, we wrote this essay to draw attention to prescription drug monitoring programs and their potential for harm.
www.healthaffairs.org
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · May 14
JUST IN: Democrat John Ewing has defeated Omaha Mayor Jean Stothert, a Republican who was running for a fourth term.

Ewing, who currently serves as Douglas County's treasurer and will be Omaha's first Black mayor, leads Stothert 56 to 44 percent with most ballots counted.
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I have written many healthcare stories, but never before have I written about my own health. I decided to do so after learning one of my drugs costs nearly $1,000 a pill and just 25 cents to make. What I found was an incredible story of discovery and exploitation. www.propublica.org/article/revl...
The Price of Remission
When I was diagnosed with cancer, I set out to understand why a single pill of Revlimid cost the same as a new iPhone. I’ve covered high drug prices as a reporter for years. What I discovered shocked ...
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Unreal. The Brox DA's office found this man innocent but "the presiding judge refused to dismiss the conviction, arguing that it would set a precedent to undo scores of other convictions. [He indicated] that if he did, the floodgates of other appeals would open."

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The wrong man: Bronx native left devastated after judge denies exoneration following 30-year legal battle | amNewYork
Eduardo Caba was supposed to finally have a moment of salvation in a Bronx court on Monday afternoon following a three-decade legal battle over a crime he
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"The judge overseeing the case against the Defense Department's firing of transgender service members revealed that the military spends eight times more on erectile dysfunction medication than on gender affirming care." www.newsweek.com/us-military-...
US military spends eight times more on Viagra than gender-affirming care
In a hearing over the Defense Department's removal of transgender service members, a judge uncovered that the military spends $42 million a year on Viagra.
www.newsweek.com
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As a first gen college student, the child of an immigrant, & an USMA grad that was privileged to have an expansive, rigorous, and eye-opening, taxpayer-funded academy education just some three decades ago, this is so heartbreaking.
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West Point professor Graham Parsons resigns from his position: "Cadets are told constantly that they are to lead a life of honor, to choose the harder right over the easier wrong, to have moral courage. But now they are learning that these are just empty slogans." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...
Opinion | West Point Is Supposed to Educate, Not Indoctrinate
www.nytimes.com
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jennoliva.bsky.social
A huge thanks to @inquest.bsky.social for publishing my new essay. This piece is inspired by a longer law review article (The "New" Drug War) that I wrote with Taleed El-Sabawi, and was published by the Virginia Law Review last fall located here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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We're excited to host the 3rd discussion in the B10 Law Schools' "Rule of Law in 2025" series tomorrow. Join @valenabeety.bsky.social, @katieeyer.bsky.social, @deborahwidiss.bsky.social, and @ohiostatelaw.bsky.social's Marc Spindelman for "Rearticulation of Sex and Gender." go.unl.edu/ruleoflaw
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We simply had to intentionally destroy the world’s strongest economy while dismantling our scientific and educational infrastructure to ensure that a team with a trans girl would never finish second place in the Mountain West volleyball standings again
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Pay attention to this, friends. Especially these days, you really don't want your genetic information floating around out there unprotected.
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California residents: If you (naively IMO) signed up for the "23andMe" genetic testing service, please understand that your data may soon be sold to an even more untrustworthy company -- but you can still order it deleted before it's too late.

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Attorney General Bonta Urgently Issues Consumer Alert for 23andMe
Californians have the right to direct the company to delete their genetic data OAKLAND — California Attorney General Rob Bonta today issued a consumer alert to customers of 23andMe, a genetic testing
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A key takeaway from Columbia should be that compliance does not buy safety. Unis are viewing the admin's attack on higher ed as a prisoner's dilemma (best strategy: comply), leading to a collectively worse outcome. The only way out is collective action, & unlike true PD, unis can coordinate action.