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Oregon’s Screening Tool for Child Abuse Cases Discontinued Following Concerns of Racial Bias
- Occurred
- Oct 1, 2018
- Published
- Jun 3, 2022
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
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.
Developers
- Oregon Department of Human Services
Deployers
- Oregon Department of Human Services
Harmed parties
- families of minority groups
- children of minority groups
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Tool discontinued due to racial bias concerns affecting child welfare decisions.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8