The Department of Child and Family Services (DCFS) in Los Angeles County, California is launching a program "to use high-tech mapping to improve court-ordered visitations for the 18,000 children placed in the county’s foster care system," according to this article from the Chronicle of Social Change. The aim of the program is to help children in foster care maintain relationships with their biological families. Facilitating visitations in Los Angeles county is "complicated by the high number of children in care and the need to facilitate long rides across the county’s traffic-choked roads." This technology would use geospatial analysis to "help reduce the amount of time parents and children spend in transit for visitation."
