Children in danger are often removed from their homes by governmental agencies. But is the system fair? There's a controversial new remedy being used, the "blind removal" solution. Racial ...

America’s largest child welfare system will soon test whether race, ethnicity or neighborhood can influence social workers’ decisions to remove children from their homes. The Los Angeles County Board ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Supervisor Holly Mitchell, whose 2nd District stretches from Culver City to Carson, proposed a "blind removal" pilot project.

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. Anywhere in the country, Black children are more likely to be ...

The Suffolk County Department of Social Services is redacting identifying information from reports used to consider the removal of a child from a home, a process county officials said eliminates the ...

What if we could just snap our fingers and get rid of racial disparities in the child-welfare system? Boosters of a recent experiment in “race blind” decision-making, launched first in Nassau County, ...

America’s largest child welfare system will soon test whether race, ethnicity or neighborhood can influence social workers’ decisions to remove children from their homes. The Los Angeles County Board ...