Local Media Reporting

Allegheny County DHS Decisions & Policies Regarding Rights, Services and Protections

• PublicSource:  News of Pending Involuntary Mental Health Care Tool Stirs Allegheny County Board 

• PublicSource: Allegheny County Preparing to Start Involuntary Outpatient Treatment

• Post-Gazette: Editorial: Allegheny County is Quietly Gutting Services for the Seriously Mentally Ill 

• Post-Gazette: Editorial: The Human Cost of Allegheny County's Data-Driven Mental Health Reforms

• Post-Gazette: Editorial: Innamorato Must Take Action After County Mental Health Client Dies During Service Shake-Up

• KDKA: Allegheny County Controller to Audit Department of Human Services Over Homelessness Services

• PublicSource: Healing or Dehumanizing?  Experts Explore the Rise in '302' Involuntary Psychiatric Comittment Petitions

Allegheny County Human Services Algorithms

• AP: Child Welfare Algorithm Faces Justice Department Scrutiny

• ACLU: How Policy Hidden in an Algorithm is Threatening Families in This Pennsylvania County

• Human Rights Data Analysis Group:  How Data Analysis Confirmed the Bias in a Family Screening Tool 

• PBC: How an Algorithm that Screens for Child Neglect could Harden Racial Disparities

• PublicSource: Pittsburgh, Allegheny County play catch-up on algorithm regulation as AI poses new risks

• National Coalition for Child Protection Reform: From the people who brought you AFST: The most dangerous "child welfare" algorithm yet

• AP: Here's How and AI Tool May Flag Parents with Disabilities