Supreme Court Justices: Addicted to Google
Boston.com
On their own, the justices found factual information from journals of social science — including the American Sociological Review, the Journal of College Student Development, the Journal of Substance Abuse, and from the National Association of Social Workers.

Social worker’s prison-harassment suit reinstated
San Francisco Chronicle
A federal appeals court reinstated on Wednesday a sexual harassment suit by a prison social worker who said her supervisors ignored her reports of being threatened by a male inmate, and asked her what she had done to provoke lewd exhibitionism by other prisoners.

Judge uses social work to help kids
NewsOK.com
Fransein has a social work background and has dedicated her career to getting the legal and social services worlds to align better for children and youth. “There is no greater disconnect than in this area of law,” Fransein said.

Rankin devoted to women’s suffrage, pacifism
Northwest Herald
After brief stints as a schoolteacher and seamstress, Jeannette Rankin traveled east in 1904 to visit her brother at Harvard and, while there, became inspired to go into social work as a career by the appalling slum conditions she saw in the Boston area. She thereafter attended the New York School of Philanthropy and the University of Washington.