An AI tool in child welfare cases in Northampton County is under investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice for potential bias in its use elsewhere.
With child welfare agencies too often ignoring past records of abuse often in the name of racial equity using Big Data may be the best way to protect at-risk kids.
“It really makes you wonder, ‘Where did it all go wrong? Why wasn’t this child protected?’” Those were the words of Merced, California police sergeant Kalvin Haygood, among the first to find the lifeless body of eight-year-old Sophia Mason earlier this year. “It was probably the most disturbing thing I’ve seen in my career,” he […]
The global pandemic might have revealed the importance of robust public health infrastructure, but we still have trouble grasping the vital need to invest in it.