I’m not sure violating privacy rights is the way to go about restoring civil rights.
violating the privacy rights of office workers
This is where our disagreement won’t be reconciled. There is no expectation of privacy in public. Until the Supreme Court overturns their decision this is not the public’s problem.
Body cams are because police have authority and are interacting with the public.
State employees at any level have authority to abuse, it’s just a very large range.
For example, there have been known cases of county clerk employees refusing to file FOIA requests on completely fabricated precedent. If I’m being charged with something, there should not be any barrier between me and the public records that exonerate me.
This example is just the tip of the iceberg.
Edit: Also just be I failed to bring this up I wanna add something about this:
Office workers working on information that is often likely PII, thus violating the privacy right of citizens too,
When you FOIA request records, they’re always going to have a chance to censor private information. This comes up all the time with license plates and address on IDs in bodycam footage. It’s the same thing.