Scott Jennings: Protecting the Victims, Even with Over-Redactions Is the ‘Correct Posture’

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JENNINGS: "Well, they released something like 400,000 documents. They do need to comply with the law as quickly as they can. But I actually do think this issue of carefully redacting documents is a good one to discuss, because it's possible to do too much and it's possible to do too little. And doing too little is the real problem here, because if you leave somebody's name in that is a victim or connected to a victim or could somehow put a victim in further harm's way or impact their life negatively in any way, you would not and should not do that. So, the utmost care has to be taken to protect the victims. My assumption is that's going to be painstaking process, to go through that many documents and do that. So, I guess on the redactions piece, I'd be okay initially with over-redactions if they were erring on the side of protecting the victims and that they end up pulling some of that back because they talk to a victim who says, 'Oh, it's okay, you can release this or you can release that.' But to me, protecting the victims here even if it means over-redacting, that's probably the correct posture."