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This is what happens when you pull in people that don’t normally do records management. They redact using black highlighter instead of the redaction tool.
Or, this is what happens when people who work for the government really hate Donald Trump.
Malicious compliance
Hanlon's Razor: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
It's a good general rule, but taking this as gospel makes it very easy for the malicious to pass off their cruelty as stupidity.
If your goal is to reduce general stress, take it as it is and leave it there. If your goal is to distinguish what exactly is actually going on, then this is a tool worth keeping around, but it's not going to do the job on it's own.
Oh absolutely, weaponized incompetence. My wife's ex-husband is a master at that.
You have to be more careful than many people expect think with the redaction tool. Sometimes it's text being redacted. Sometimes it's a graphic. Sometimes it's both on top of each other.
That's why my final step in redacting documents for Open Records (I do a LOT of it) is to flatten the PDF.
But the real bitch is protected docs. Some docs keep the redaction tool from working (e.g. docs with digital signatures). Sometimes I actually have to print a doc out and re-scan it to get the redactions to stick.
why are there so many people in this thread that redact things often enough to have favorite workflows?
I work in government and Open Records requests are regular things, and I have to redact a bunch of stuff to protect people's privacy.
Thank you for your service
Hang in there
I redact, print, and then scan. Its the only way to be sure.
Export to PNG -> redact PNG.
Ain't nothing hiding behind those (0,0,0) pixels.
I do all my markup, attempt to flatten, then print the result to PDF, then open the result and export the text to validate.
they are all incompetent, i call it bottom of the barrel, no one complement wants to work there.
the technical term is Kakistocracy.