What works in New York City
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Evidence snapshot for New York City
New York City has implemented multiple algorithmic transparency and accountability measures. Local Law 35 requires annual public reporting of municipal algorithmic tools, with the 2023 inventory identifying 46 tools across 14 agencies, up from 8 a decade earlier, though about 35% of these process personally identifying information. Local Law 144 mandates independent bias audits of AI hiring tools, but enforcement has been ineffective—a 2024 study found only 4.6% of 391 employers posted required audit reports, and a 2025 state audit found the enforcement agency identified just 1 non-compliance case while the Comptroller independently found 17 in the same 32 companies reviewed. These practices demonstrate NYC's legislative intent to create algorithmic accountability, but reveal significant gaps between policy design and actual compliance monitoring.
Drawn from: Girls Who Code — Closing the Computer Science Gender Gap Through Summer Programmes · New York City's Local Law 144 — Mandatory Bias-Audit Disclosure for Automated Hiring Tools, and Its Enforcement Gap · Local Law 35 — New York City's Annual Public Inventory of Municipal Algorithmic Tools · New York City Local Law 144 — AI Hiring Bias Audit Mandate · AI-Powered Oral Exams — NYU Stern's Cheat-Resistant Alternative to Written Assessment
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Transparency, fairness & accountability +30 pts 83 here · 54 average
Sustainability +20 pts 100 here · 80 average
Impact on gender equality +17 pts 100 here · 83 average
Weaknesses
Transferability / replicability -9 pts 50 here · 59 average
Evidence of impact / measured public value -10 pts 50 here · 60 average
Governance, capability & sustainability -16 pts 50 here · 66 average
Transparency, ethics & data protection -16 pts 33 here · 50 average
Scalability beyond pilot -22 pts 44 here · 66 average
Curator validation -25 pts 50 here · 75 average
Effectiveness -31 pts 50 here · 81 average
Evaluated outcomes -34 pts 50 here · 84 average
Gender-mainstreaming embedding -40 pts 50 here · 90 average
Achievement / evidence -43 pts 50 here · 93 average
Efficiency -52 pts 0 here · 52 average
Equity & inclusion -54 pts 0 here · 54 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: New York City. Grey bar: peer average across the corpus. Both on a common 0–100 scale.
Points compare this place's average on each dimension with the average across all evaluated places, on a common 0–100 scale. Know more
Top good practices here
Girls Who Code — Closing the Computer Science Gender Gap Through Summer Programmes · 74
Local Law 35 — New York City's Annual Public Inventory of Municipal Algorithmic Tools · 53
New York City Local Law 144 — AI Hiring Bias Audit Mandate · 37
AI-Powered Oral Exams — NYU Stern's Cheat-Resistant Alternative to Written Assessment · 27
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Recommended to adopt or replicate
Transferable practices from elsewhere that address this place's gaps.
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- Rated highly transferable
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- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
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- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
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