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Ha! I remember defending federal criminal paper cases where the government would request extra time to produce "voluminous disclosures." I would get thirty five boxes of documents, almost completely filled with black magic marker. Rarely was anything meaningful ever disclosed
Yep.
A little over a decade ago I did an interim gig for a mid-size manufacturer that did public RFP bids all the time. When some of those were taken to court - because your competitors will not shy away from any trolling to get your proposal out in public - I'd pull it out of the sales team's hands and redact it all myself. There were weekends where I had to do multiple 300-1000 page documents, but I didn't want someone else to mess it up: better it be my fuckup.
For each full page of black marker (using Acrobat's cool masking feature) all I did was write the rationale down in my own notes. I think we got a question from the judge once, and the rationale was sufficient to not have to redo it.
The system would grind to a halt if each redaction was challenged.
yeah I mean it's pretty well-known that the government errs on the side of "make it all" secret when deciding the confidentiality of a piece of information. the idea behind it generally makes sense. you can take back something you expose.
Not sure if many stackers have had the "honor" of having to redact docs. From what I remember, "redact as much as possible, the worst that can happen is that you get ordered to redo it" used to be the go-to strategy.