Why the Chicago Sun-Times now offers a “right to be forgotten”

The Chicago Sun-Times announced a new policy earlier this month that allows people who have appeared in its news coverage to ask for a review – and possibly have those stories removed from internet searches. Sun-Times executive editor Jennifer Kho says the policy is a response to the permanence of the internet and Chicago’s history of unjust arrests. “At the Sun-Times,” Kho wrote when the policy went public, “we don’t think it’s fair for stories about arrests to follow people around forever if they were never convicted or if charges were dropped or expunged.” Kho and Mary Mitchell, a Sun-Times columnist and the paper’s director of culture and community engagement, join The Rundown to explain the decisions behind “the right to be forgotten.”]]>