Defenderr

Created for Black Lives Matter Hackathon (2020)

Team Cat Lady Coders

Calista Wong Karen Berba Lisa Bettcher

Video Demo

https://youtu.be/pivrrt0XFSE

Devpost Submission Link

https://devpost.com/software/defenderr-iaj80l

Inspiration

We wanted to create a multi-functional mobile app that empowers people, especially those of targeted demographics, to stand up against police brutality and injustice.

What it does

• Informs users on their rights based on their individual situations
• Provides a guideline on the pieces of information that should be collected in a police encounter
• Sends an auto-generated text message with location data to an emergency contact in the case of an arrest
• Guides the user to create a police complaint letter through an auto-generated template

How We built it

• Firebase and Flutter

Challenges We ran into

• Delegating tasks in a team
• Working with different environments and getting all of our apps to sync
• Developing features that are practical and usable to people facing police brutality
• Trying to understand the challenges that other POC encounter
• Marketing our app and the best way to present our ideas

Accomplishments that We're proud of

• Learning mobile development on Flutter
• Learning about how to create a marketing pitch

What We learned

• The reality of racial injustice
• Individual rights
• Different situations in which police aggression and injustice may occur

What's next for Defenderr

• Supporting photo documentation in creating police reports
• Voice-activated functions, for situations when users are not able to access their phones easily
• Voice to text transcription
• Release for IOS