[5] Cesar Chavez recalled that the Record accused him of using "vicious dogs" to scare workers into signing up for the newly formed union.
We submit this is a cynical and cruel hoax that in the long run can only undermine and make a mockery of the legitimate aspirations of our citizens of Mexican ancestry for the recognition by officialdom to which they are entitled...In 2011, Schafter Press, which printed the Record, caught fire.
[9] The fire destroyed the paper news archives, causing the loss of any material that had not previously been stored on microfiche.
[11] The Bakersfield.com site (formerly The Bakersfield Californian) was as of July 2018[update] publishing a weekly section identified as the Delano Record,[12] but the connection to the previous publication is unclear.
The site features the reporting of local journalists Gene Garaygordobil and Maria Ahumada-Garaygordobil (of the local news site and former Record competitor DelanoNow) and the columns of Gary Girard and publishes under the name The Record.