• limelight79@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    Can I bitch about that redaction for a bit? Someone hit our car while it was parked on federal property. There were cameras, and the security people figured out who did it (and called them, and they denied it). When we finally got the police report, all of the information for identifying the guilty party had been redacted, along with the officer’s name and any other useful information. For a literal fender bender. Shitty driver got away with it. The police report was completely useless. I can only imagine my insurance company was like, “We waited 3 weeks for THIS?” They might as well have sent over a blank page.

    I get the idea behind redacting stuff in general, but that one just pissed me off.

    • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      It’s frustrating for me too, but state law requires us to redact certain things on a PIR even when we think it’s stupid.

      I have to redact homeowner information even though it’s available through the appraisal district. That means I have to manually check for homeowner names on every page of every document, even though another agency has it labeled on the map. It adds hours and accomplishes nothing.

      But it’s state law, so I have to follow it.