Washington, DC, is the home base of the most powerful government on earth. It’s also home to 690,000 people—and 29 obscure algorithms that shape their lives. City agencies use automation to screen ...

Mayor de Blasio at a 2016 crime statistics briefing. The Brennan Center recently won partial disclosure of materials related to the NYPD's predictive policing pilot—a technology that data scientists ...

The New York City Mayor's Office has created a senior-level position to manage the city's use of algorithms. The Algorithms Management and Policy Officer, created this week through executive order by ...

The New York City Council last week passed the Algorithmic Accountability Bill, which mandates “the creation of a task force that provides recommendations on how information on agency automated ...