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 ...

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 ...

Child welfare agencies often intercept Social Security and other benefits owed to foster youth. In some states, that's ...

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 ...