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The Plain Dealer / cleveland.com

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Type
Professional newsroom
Parent institution
Advance Local
Separate entity from parent
Unknown. A parent institution's policies are not attributed to this publication without evidence.
Location
Cleveland
Publishing status
Not yet confirmed
Website
https://www.cleveland.com/
Outreach
Not yet contacted

What an automated search found

From NSMPA, which read this newsroom's website. Nobody has checked it by hand yet, and it isn't our classification; we haven't classified this newsroom yet.

Policy text permits some remedies when circumstances change

On NSMPA's hand-compiled list of known policies, noted as “Right-to-be-forgotten review” (listed source).

RemedyPolicy text (automated reading)Practice (automated reading)
Removal / unpublishingPermitted in policy textNone found
Search-engine de-indexingPermitted in policy textNone found
Anonymization or redactionPermitted in policy textNone found
Update for later developmentsNot addressed—

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The Archive Ethics Project. The Plain Dealer / cleveland.com (aep-001109). National Policy Atlas. https://archiveethics.org/atlas/the-plain-dealer-clevelandcom. Accessed Oct 11, 2026.

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