Sec. 2. Findings
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Congress finds that— 4 to 8 children in the United States die every day from abuse or neglect at the hands of their parents or caretakers; according to the 2016 Child Maltreatment report of the Department of Health and Human Services, there were 1,700 fatalities resulting from child maltreatment reported in fiscal year 2016, an increase of 7 percent from the previous year; in 2016, approximately 676,000 children were victims of abuse and neglect; predictive analytics can be used as a tool in helping to identify the children most at risk of maltreatment; harnessing and analyzing administrative data can help to drive better outcomes for children and families, as well as assist child protective service workers in delivering much needed services to children who are most at risk; and we should explore every possible opportunity to do better for our children, and predictive analytics tools provide such an opportunity, if such tools are implemented with appropriate oversights and safeguards.