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Computer program aimed at predicting child abuse debated Sign In KIM STRONG, York Daily Record July 10, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Critics worry the program is prone to unfairly separate poor and minority children from parents. When a 4-year-old girl drowned in her swimming pool near Pittsburgh on an August day in 2019, the family was already known to child welfare. Reports of “lack of supervision” in the home had been called into Allegheny County’s Department of Human Services six times b...

There’s a critical moment in child welfare that happens when a phone screener receives a call from someone reporting child neglect or abuse.