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Oregon’s Screening Tool for Child Abuse Cases Discontinued Following Concerns of Racial Bias

AI Incident Database · article · Jun 3, 2022 · UTC

Oregon’s Department of Human Services (DHS) stopped using its Safety at Screening Tool, that is aimed to predict the risk that children wind up in foster care or be investigated in the future, and opted for a new process allegedly to reduce disparities and improve racially equitable decision-making.

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incident-report
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reported
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Global

Reported occurrence date: 2018-10-01T00:00:00.000Z

Evidence & attribution

AI Incident Database, Responsible AI Collaborative; McGregor (2021), Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents. Incident-specific contributor credits are available at each citation link. Metadata adapted; article text excluded.

License: CC BY-SA 4.0

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