Correction
corr-2026-07-21-private-person-window
Logged: 2026-07-21
Severity: major
Status: resolved
Affected record: 2026-07-20
Affected day pages: 2026-07-20
Timeline: detected 2026-07-21; acknowledged 2026-07-21; corrected 2026-07-21.
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What happened
A phrase containing the name of a private individual — a person named in members' statements about a fatal law-enforcement incident — appeared in the synchronized-phrase table on that day's page, on the phrases index, and on the home page. OnScript measures elected officials' public statements and does not rank or page private citizens, regardless of how newsworthy the underlying event is. A different name-window form of the same name was already withheld, but the suppression list did not carry every window an n-gram can slide across, so this form was not matched. Every citation involved was valid and every number was correct — the citation verifier has no opinion about privacy, by construction, so no receipts audit could have caught this.
Resolution
The remaining name-window forms are now withheld from every published surface and the affected rows no longer render. The underlying record of what members said is retained unaltered (Art. VI); only this instrument's ranking of it is withheld. Suppression is content-neutral protection applied identically to both parties — it is not a finding, and no threshold was changed.