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Redaction for Disclosure Obligations
These are the releases with a deadline and an appeal attached. What gets withheld has to be justified under a named exemption, and the justification has to survive being challenged months later.
Use Cases
FOIA and Public Records
Documents
Redact video, audio, images and documents before releasing public records. Federal FOIA and state disclosure deadlines, with automated detection and exemption code tagging.
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Documents
Redact privileged and personally identifiable information from litigation documents, depositions, witness recordings, email chains and court filings before production.
Learn moreEmail Disclosure
Documents
Remove PII, privileged content and financial data from email threads, headers, signatures and attachments in one pass. Underlying text is removed, not just masked.
Learn moreGDPR and DSAR
Compliance
Fulfil subject access requests by redacting all identifiable data except the data subject's, across CCTV footage, call recordings and documents within the 30-day deadline.
Learn moreWhat These Share
The exemption is the deliverable
A release that masks the right regions but cannot say under which statutory basis has not answered the request. Codes are applied as the redaction is made and printed on the released record.
One request, many formats
A single FOIA request routinely covers body camera footage, dispatch audio, an email thread and a scanned incident report. Handling them in one system is what keeps the deadline reachable.
The original has to survive
An appeal against a withholding is decided against the unredacted record. Redaction produces a new rendition and the source is retained by default.
Somebody will ask who did what
Every action is recorded with user, email address, IP address, local date and time, and event, from ingestion through to disposition.
How a Release Package Is Produced
Intake
The request's files arrive together whatever their formats, so footage, dispatch audio, an email thread and a scanned report are one job rather than four.
Detect
Faces, plates, screens, spoken PII and written identifiers are found automatically, with a framework selected so coverage can be reported against it.
Review
An officer confirms or corrects each detection before anything is burned in. Nothing releases on the model's word alone.
Code
The statutory exemption is applied as the redaction is made and drawn onto the mask, so the released file states its own basis.
Export and report
The redacted rendition is produced, the original retained, and the redaction record exported as CSV for the release package.
Redaction produces a new rendition rather than a layer over the source, which is what makes it permanent in the released file.
Where This Fits
Disclosure work is rarely one format. Document redaction covers the scanned reports and filings, video redaction the footage, and audio redaction the recorded calls. Defensibility explains the exemption codes and the coverage report in full, and review and approval covers the human check before release.
FAQ
Questions, answered
What counts as a public records disclosure use case?
Releases with a deadline and an appeal attached: FOIA and state public records requests, eDiscovery productions, email disclosure, and GDPR subject access requests.
How is a withholding justified on release?
A statutory exemption code is applied as the redaction is made and printed on the released record, so the basis travels with the file rather than in a covering letter.
What happens if a withholding is challenged?
The exemption is already recorded against the redaction, and the unredacted original is retained by default, because an appeal is decided against the original. If the original is gone the appeal cannot be answered.
Can one request cover several formats?
Routinely, and that is the point. A single request often covers body camera footage, dispatch audio, an email thread and a scanned report, and handling them in one system is what keeps the deadline reachable.
Is there a record of who released what?
Every action is recorded with user, email address, IP address, timestamp and event, from ingestion through to disposition, and the redaction record exports as CSV for the release package.
Start With Your Own Backlog
Send us a request you have already fulfilled and we will show you what the exemption report would have looked like.