The Connecticut Mirror

Accountability for algorithms: Moving CT’s government to transparency

In 2008, Tammy Dobbs, a woman with cerebral palsy, moved to Arkansas. She applied to the state to receive help from a caretaker, and after an assessment, Dobbs was allotted the maximum 56 hours of ...
Government Technology

Connecticut Committee Issues Report on Implications of Algorithms

(TNS) — The Connecticut Special Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Tuesday released a report on “The Civil Rights Implications of Algorithms,” a work that found government ...
The Telegraph

Panel: Connecticut needs safeguards for agency algorithms

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut needs safeguards on state government’s use of artificial intelligence including algorithms at child welfare and other agencies to prevent discrimination and increase ...
The Connecticut Mirror

Governments — including Connecticut’s — continue using algorithms in the dark

Government agencies are increasingly relying upon computer programs known as algorithms to make life-altering decisions about their citizens, and these decisions could even become fatal. David ...