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UC Davis apologizes for trying to bury pepper spray incident
After leading UC Davis through some admittedly hard times, the school's chancellor Linda Katehi has issued something of a mea culpa for the way her communications department handled the fallout from the widely reported pepper spray incident in 2011. In her official release, Katehi takes "full responsibility" for the university's futile attempt to prevent it from showing up in search results, while also trying to shed some light on just what the heck they were thinking.
UC Davis tries to erase references to pepper spray incident
When you try to suppress or scrub information that's already out there, it tends to have the opposite effect. Barbra Streisand and Beyonce learned that the hard way, and now you can add the University of California, Davis to that list. According to the Sacramento Bee, UC Davis spent at least $175,000 in an effort to remove references of the 2011 pepper spray incident from the internet. The Bee got its hands on documents showing the university's contract with one of the PR companies it hired to combat all the negative writeups against it.
