2023 Press room

Here is a collection of press coverage of the Human Rights Data Analysis Group.

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New Report Raises Questions Over CPD’s Approach to Missing Persons Cases

Paul Caine - WTTW - 29 November 2023

In this video, Trina Reynolds-Tyler of Invisible Institute talks about her work with HRDAG on the missing persons project in Chicago and Beneath the Surface.

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PRIO 2023 Shortlist for Nobel Peace Prize

Henrik Urdal - CNN - 6 October 2023

In a CNN interview predicting a Nobel Peace Prize winner, Henrik Urdal from PRIO talks about his shortlist and HRDAG.

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Investigating Boston Police Department SWAT Raids from 2012 to 2020

Natasha - ACLU - 27 September 2023

HRDAG collaborated with Data for Justice Project on a tool tool allowing members of the public to visualize and analyze nearly a decade of Boston Police Department SWAT team after-action reports. Tarak Shah of HRDAG is named in the acknowledgments.

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Here’s how an AI tool may flag parents with disabilities

Sally Ho and Garance Burke - AP - 15 March 2023

HRDAG contributed to work by the ACLU showing that a predictive tool used to guide responses to alleged child neglect may forever flag parents with disabilities. “These predictors have the effect of casting permanent suspicion and offer no means of recourse for families marked by these indicators,” according to the analysis from researchers at the ACLU and the nonprofit Human Rights Data Analysis Group. “They are forever seen as riskier to their children.”

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