The fire districts' elected officials are more in tune with issues involving fire districts. Most of the public doesn't attend the meetings and aren't involved in the process.
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For someone to dictate to us that after 48 hours, we can no longer use this footage without permission, smacks a little bit of censorship number one. And number two, it's just, basically, unfair.
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