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Board approves retroactive amendment to Adult Probation COMPAS contract over dissent on bias research
Summary
The Board approved a retroactive amendment extending maintenance and support for the COMPAS risk-assessment software with Northpointe (now Equivant) after debate about racial bias studies. The measure passed 9-2; two supervisors voted no citing racial-bias concerns in national studies.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted 9-2 on Tuesday to approve a retroactive amendment to a contract that funds maintenance and support for the COMPAS risk-assessment tool used by the Adult Probation Department.
Supervisor Dean Preston objected to proceeding without more time to consider research questioning COMPASu2019s fairness. Preston said national work (notably ProPublicau2019s reporting) has raised concerns that COMPAS can return biased risk scores against Black defendants, and he said the department had not yet answered all policy questions…
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