PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Justice Department has been scrutinizing a controversial ... issues surrounding the increasing use of algorithms within the troubled child welfare system in the U.S. While some ...

It wasn’t too long after my family was thrust into homelessness that the Department of Children ... likely to enter the criminal justice system. The child welfare agencies my family interacted ...

The AP has learned the Justice Department is investigating one Pennsylvania county’s child welfare system to determine whether its use of an algorithm discriminates against people with ...

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 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 ...