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A child welfare algorithm showed a pattern of flagging a disproportionate number of Black children for a “mandatory” neglect investigation, when compared with white children.

Around the country, as child welfare agencies use or consider algorithmic tools, an AP review has identified a number of concerns about the technology, including questions about its reliability and its potential to harden racial disparities in the child welfare system.

Child welfare officials in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, the cradle of Mister Rogers TV neighborhood and the icons child-centric innovations, are using an algorithm to support agency workers as they make decisions meant to protect children from neglect

Inside a cavernous stone fortress in downtown Pittsburgh, attorney Robin Frank defends...

Child welfare officials in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, the cradle of Mister Rogers' TV neighborhood and the icon's child-centric innovations, are using an

Critics say employing the algorithm gives a program powered by data mostly collected about poor people an outsized role in deciding families’ fates

For family law attorney Robin Frank, defending parents at one of their lowest points — when they risk losing their children — has never been easy.

Across the country, many child welfare agencies are using algorithms to screen for neglect.

Inside a cavernous stone fortress in downtown Pittsburgh, attorney Robin Frank defends parents at one of their lowest points - when they risk losing their children.

Oregon’s screening tool, implemented in 2018, was inspired by an algorithm which has concerns about its reliability and its potential to harden racial disparities in the child welfare system.