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> Further how many times does this issue really come up in the course of time.

One possibly common case would be police officers operating on hospital grounds. Video taping patients who have not broken any laws is an enormous invasion of privacy.

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Maybe there could be an independent review committee that reviews footage before release ensuring no impertinent PII is released. This, of course, would only work if the committee was _truly_ independent (i.e. commissioned for {x} years with a set budget by a higher level of government), and potentially would need to be anonymous in the event of a divisive case.

There are police officers who work full-time in a hospital. If they're wearing a body cam and recording constantly then they'd be producing 40 hours/week of footage. Considering that there may be multiple police officers in a similar role at a hospital and multiple hospitals in a city then how can any committee keep up with that?

You can just limit the review to footage that is being requested or used in accordance with a valid legal request and leave the rest in cold storage. If the footage is irrelevant to any legal proceedings then there is no reason for anybody to ever see it. Applied reasonably this would incur at most a modest multiplier on the current cost of a LEO or lawyer looking at it for their actual purposes.

This would really only work if a third party that didn't answer to local government or the police held the footage. Otherwise it is literally inevitable that you would have inappropriate access or politically motivated leaks.

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