“…While it is clear that Black and American Indian or Alaska Native children are disproportionally involved and experience poorer outcomes in the child welfare system, there is far less known about what causes it and how to address it (Murphy et al, 2023). Some suggest that the lack of due process protections results in child welfare system overreach and unnecessary involvement of families in dependency court, which impacts underserved communities that are at higher risk of oversurveillance (Carter et al, 2022;Hernandez & Ismail, 2022;Gupta-Kagan, 2022;Gupta-Kagan et al, 2023;Wayne and Smith, 2016).…”