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How the journalism of child welfare fails

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Imagine for a moment that you are a reporter assigned to write a multi-part in-depth series on the criminal justice system. Reporters can identify with foster parents – they probably know some, or at least have friends who do – or if not that, then they may have friends who adopted a foster child. A small number are sick.

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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. Those pesky civil libertarians!