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Garrett Therolf and the Magic Algorithm!

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

It was tried first in criminal justice – and proven to be racially biased. The program, first adopted in Nassau County on Long Island in New York, redacts all race and race-related factors from the dossiers used by social workers and supervisors in determining child welfare cases. (By Those pesky civil libertarians!