The actual cost of putting a camera in every courthouse in America — cities, counties, state level meeting rooms — is vanishingly small. Just point it at the lectern and capture ALL of what goes on.

I have a home security camera that supports wifi and hardwired ethernet, and will work in the dark — it was $50 or so.

Someone could spin up a custom firmware to make this *very* easy to deploy, and write a kit of documentation around how to ‘do it right’ for municipalities to follow.

Cache video locally so network outages aren’t a ‘convenient problem’, and then send all of the data to redundant storage in the cloud, and devise an app that allows for end-user/viewers to tag it by concept, idea, discussion points, et cetera. Then make that data publicly available as well, so that folks can build tools for analysis and re-consumption. [So that if you’re interested in finding all of the arguments — good or bad — about some problem like clean water, you can do that. Crowdsourcing at its best — large scale, nonjudgmental, and as a big hammer for figuring things out on the local level.]