Conventionally the process of removing a person’s criminal record is undertaken manually, a process that takes time and one where errors can occur. The purpose of the new algorithm is to make the ...

Like the clairvoyants in the film “Minority Report,” computer-generated risk assessment algorithms aim to predict the likelihood that someone will commit crime in the future. These risk assessment ...

FILE - A sign marks an entrance to the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building in Washington, Monday, Jan. 23, 2023. The Justice Department has been scrutinizing a controversial artificial ...

Spokane County is adopting a new computer algorithm designed to help judges decide which defendants should remain in jail, abandoning a more costly, custom-developed program that was hampered by ...

PITTSBURGH — The Justice Department has been scrutinizing a controversial artificial intelligence tool used by a Pittsburgh-area child protective services agency following concerns that the tool could ...

Dozens of people packed into a Philadelphia courtroom on June 6 to voice their objections to a proposed criminal justice algorithm. The algorithm, developed by the Pennsylvania Commission on ...

Case work supervisor Jessie Schemm looks over the first screen of software used by workers who field calls at an intake call screening center for the Allegheny County Children and Youth Services, in ...