Corrections Policy

The Santa Barbara News-Press is committed to reporting with accuracy and integrity. If you notice something factually inaccurate written by staff or contributors to the Santa Barbara News-Press, please contact us by email at editor@newspress.com. Please include documentation, if necessary, to support your claim.

The Santa Barbara News-Press corrects all factual errors. Generally, we will correct a mistake in an article by adding a correction to the bottom of the story indicating what was changed and why. This is also how we handle clarifications. If an article included a significant error, readers will be notified at the top of the article and the erroneous material will be corrected in the body of the article. The Santa Barbara News-Press retains sole discretion as to determining that a factual error has occurred and should be corrected.

All requests for corrections will be considered by the editors, not the journalist who produced the content. When inaccurate information is provided by an outside source and the reporter reasonably expected it was trustworthy, we will tell our readers the source of the error.