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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?

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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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