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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 icon's 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