The solution there is to take all the DRM technology that has been used to block fair use, and repurpose it to enforce citizen privacy: Block the ability of ordinary officers to pull video data off the cameras. They can only transfer it to the police video-backup server, which will only allow it to be watched on special viewing stations. Give the police chief a key that lets the video out, when necessary.
The Crest advocate, Selena Parmenter, is in her early thirties if appearances can be trusted, and she acts bored. She has said little to Mary as they wait for the deputy district director of Seattle Oversight, the honorable Clarens Lodge, to take his seat and listen to their appeals.
Oversight was created in the teens. The first states to use the procedure were California and Washington. With so much information on citizens recorded daily by vid, home monitors, fibe and satlink uploads, and neighborhood
surveillance systems, a separate branch of the judiciary was established to hear appeals from those seeking to use that information for legal purposes.
Early abuses--and the far worse systematic abuse under the Raphkind presidency--has made the system painfully complex for all concerned. Each avenue of information has been wrapped in labyrinthine rules of legal engagement; and an appeal for release of data can be made only once a year for any given case.
