In their first meeting since a series of leadership shake-ups, Oregon ... as the new child welfare director. Jones has worked for the department for two decades, most recently as district manager ...

When Oregon’s sweeping child welfare class action lawsuit was finally ... over-lawyered beyond belief” the case had been. U.S. District Court Judge Ann Aiken was blunt: She said the case ...

Child welfare officials in Oregon will stop using an algorithm to help decide which families are investigated by social workers, opting instead for a new process that officials say will make ...

In 2023, Public Knowledge (PK) completed a new assessment on Oregon’s child welfare agency. This was a follow-up to an independent review conducted in 2016 that highlighted numerous challenges ...

U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, said he had long been concerned about the algorithms used by his state’s child welfare system and reached out to the department again following the AP ...