Centering Racial Equity Throughout Data Integration

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Data Governance Administrative Violence

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With trust in government and experts (e.g., researchers) at historic lows, efforts that rely exclusively on these institutions to “use data to solve social problems” are unlikely to succeed.

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“hunt for more data is [often] a barrier for acting on what we already know.”

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We call for the inclusion of community voices and power sharing at every stage of design, use, and implementation.

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Seeing data as race-neutral is inaccurate, and such views could lead to system-level data usage that unintentionally replicates structural racism.

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Most relevant for centering racial equity, administrative data are vulnerable to biases, inaccuracies, and incomplete or missing data, and most often include communities that are over-surveilled by government agencies

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