{"id":4102,"date":"2025-01-09T20:50:18","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T20:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/?p=4102"},"modified":"2025-01-09T20:50:18","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T20:50:18","slug":"us-newspapers-are-deleting-old-crime-stories-offering-subjects-a-clean-slate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/?p=4102","title":{"rendered":"US newspapers are deleting old crime stories, offering subjects a \u2018clean slate\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Civil rights advocates across the US have long fought to free people from their criminal records, with campaigns to expunge old cases and keep people\u2019s past arrests private when they apply for jobs and housing.<\/p>\n<p>The efforts are critical, as more than 70 million Americans have prior convictions or arrests \u2013 roughly one in three adults. But the policies haven\u2019t addressed one of the most damaging ways past run-ins with police can derail people\u2019s lives: old media coverage.<\/p>\n<p>Some newsrooms are working to fill that gap.<\/p>\n<p>A handful of local newspapers across the US have in recent years launched programs to review their archives and consider requests to remove names or delete old stories to protect the privacy of subjects involved in minor crimes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jan\/04\/newspaper-crime-stories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Civil rights advocates across the US have long fought to free people from their criminal records, with campaigns to expunge old cases and keep people\u2019s past arrests private when they apply for jobs and housing. The efforts are critical, as more than 70 million Americans have prior convictions or arrests \u2013 roughly one in three adults. But the policies haven\u2019t addressed one of the most damaging ways past run-ins with police can derail people\u2019s lives: old media coverage. Some newsrooms  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4104,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4102\/revisions\/4104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}