Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Yes, there IS a problem with the “culture change” in Connecticut: It hasn’t gone far enough

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Connecticut, 1995 : Emily Hernandez, a child-known-to-the-system, dies. Gov. John Rowland demands that caseworkers tear apart more fami...
Tuesday, October 25, 2016

New Columns on the stop-and-frisk of child welfare, lessons from Wells Fargo, caseworkers who assert a right to lie and reforming the system in Connecticut

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My fellow liberals are rightly upset about stop-and-frisk policing. They should be equally upset about Predictive Analytics: The Stop-and-F...
Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Lessons for child welfare from the California “right-to-lie” case

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In the past few years,  we’ve learned a lot of ugly truths about the criminal justice system. (By “we,” I mean, those of us who are whit...
Monday, October 10, 2016

Predictive analytics: The stop-and-frisk of child welfare

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Like many of my fellow liberals,  I get a lot of my news from the most reliable sources:  Last Week Tonight  with John Oliver,  Full Fro...
Saturday, September 24, 2016

Opposition to differential response dealt heavy blow

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There is a new study out  from the federal government,  another in a long line   documenting that an approach to child welfare known as “di...
Friday, September 16, 2016

Latest objection to Family First Act: You’re kidding, right?

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Maybe the Family First   Act   has a better chance of passing than I thought. I assumed passage was unlikely. But the latest argument fro...
Wednesday, September 7, 2016

Family First Act has problems, but the “imminent risk” provision isn’t one of them

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Have you heard the one  about how the Family First Prevention Services Act supposedly isn’t really about prevention? The claim is based on ...