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points by NewJazz 2 days ago | 0 comments
These courts don't have public lists of who was being tried.

The specific location of the court, and even identity if the judge, can be redacted. We don't have to use the case as precedent.

[–] xp84 1 day ago
I’ll assume that there’s some fake district we can create in the system to attribute such things to, since normally the courts are in districts which may be too specific on their own.

But the resulting material would be like, (XXXX meaning redactions)

XXXX was accused of XXXX

Tried before judge XXXX in XXXX District court

The evidence was XXXX XXXX XXXX

The witnesses were XXXX XXXX XXXX

They were found (not) guilty

If anything could be unredacted it could potentially (?) be the bare fact that it was about nuclear secrets but you can’t really reveal anything else without giving majorly risky facts to bad actors.

The redactions of every document could require many full-time very security-cleared clerks (or take years to do if understaffed) and is of the highest importance since a single failure to redact, or operational error, may reveal the whole secret thing. Mostly, all the things need redacting, so either whole documents, or everything but the prepositions and articles is redacted.

Since it sounds like the concern here is about the public’s interest in monitoring to make sure no abuses are taking place (which is a value I do share), what part of this aim would be served by a redacted report like this?

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