A child welfare investigation can result in vulnerable ... They said in an email that they were unaware of any Justice Department scrutiny relating to the algorithm. The AP obtained records ...

Louisiana's troubled Department of Children and Family Services has rapidly hired new child welfare caseworkers in recent ...

The U.S. Justice Department is asking the same question. The agency is investigating the county’s child welfare system to determine whether its use of the influential algorithm discriminates ...

Child welfare algorithms plug vast amounts of public data about local families into complex statistical models to calculate ...

The DoJ is investigating a county's child welfare system's use of an AI tool that may be discriminating against parents with ...

Louisiana's troubled Department of ... grappling with massive scrutiny over a series of child fatalities. "I think we've made tremendous progress," Senate Health and Welfare Committee Chairman ...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — For the two weeks that the Hackneys’ baby girl lay in a Pittsburgh hospital bed weak from dehydration, her parents rarely left her side, sometimes sleeping on the fold-out ...