Removals and corrections

The scanner publishes public radio traffic as it happens. When a call hurts someone more than it informs anyone, we take it down.

What we remove on request

• Names of private people, especially victims, patients and anyone under 18.
• Home addresses tied to a medical call, a death, or a crime against the people living there.
• Medical and mental-health details about a person who can be identified.
• Anything that puts someone at risk, such as the location of a person hiding from abuse.

What usually stays

• Public officials doing their public jobs.
• Calls at businesses, roads and public places, with no personal details.
• Calls that were simply unflattering but accurate.

Taking a call down removes it from the map, the feed and every page of this site. Search engines and copies elsewhere can take longer to forget it. If a call is wrong, tell us that too, and we will correct or remove it.

Ask for a removal

Use this form. A person reads every request, usually within a few days.