The NYC Algorithm Deciding Which Families Are Under Watch for Child Abuse – The Markup

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Karlena Hamblin was sitting on a stool in her Brownsville, Brooklyn apartment waiting for the Administration for Children’s Services to knock on her door for a weekly check-in. She’d just fed her infant daughter, who she held cradled in…