An office charged with research and evaluation for Administration for Children and Families programs faces structural changes. A broad coalition warns its work could be “destroyed.”

The department again reported few uses slated for increased risk management practices, and demoted several systems it previously determined could have significant impact on the public.

The department's 2025 tally of AI uses continues a trend of dramatic annual increases, adding deployments for unaccompanied minors data as well as agentic AI uses.