National Policy Atlas · aep-000960
The Sacramento Bee
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.
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On NSMPA's hand-compiled list of known policies, noted as “Clean Slate / reviewed changes” (listed source).
| Remedy | Policy text (automated reading) | Practice (automated reading) |
|---|---|---|
| Removal / unpublishing | — | — |
| Search-engine de-indexing | — | — |
| Anonymization or redaction | — | — |
| Update for later developments | — | — |
Policy pages
| Page | First seen | Checked by us |
|---|---|---|
| ‘Clean Slate’: Sacramento Bee reviews old crime, arrest stories | Sacramento Bee | Oct 8, 2026 | Not yet |
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2 quotes from this newsroom's own pages, found automatically
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- Retrieved Oct 8, 2026 · Read from the Internet Archive's copy · NSMPA evidence 585
The “Clean Slate” team will consider a range of options for addressing applicants’ cases — updating the story, deindexing the article from internet search engines or even removing the story from sacbee.com entirely.
- Retrieved Oct 8, 2026 · Read from the Internet Archive's copy · NSMPA evidence 586
“That’s why we want to be responsive to requests from the community for us to review some stories with the aim of updating our coverage and minimizing any continuing harm that has resulted.
Cite this record
The Archive Ethics Project. The Sacramento Bee (aep-000960). National Policy Atlas. https://archiveethics.org/atlas/the-sacramento-bee. Accessed Oct 11, 2026.
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