That solution seems to be awfully cumbersome on at least two counts.
1) We could choose to only record the actions of only some government employees.
For example
We could instead use some sort of cost/benefit analysis to determine which government employees are worth the trouble of recording.
Certainly with many government employees we already have a sufficient "paper trail" in the logs of their computer usage and what-have-you. For many other government employees the probability of their actions ever being worth the effort of viewing may be essentially nil.
We could just take a vote at the relevant levels of govt as to which employees we'd like to have recorded.
A community could have any number of reasons for wanting to have some government employees recorded that do not apply to all government employees.
We are not restricted to recording ALL government employees.
Recording all government employees is one of the things which makes your proposed solution seem impractical, inefficient, and inordinate.
2) Additionally, shipping the jillions of video logs around would be a great waste of effort and bandwidth.
It would be better to handle the records just as we currently handle video and other records--store them and let them be accessed as necessary.
CNN doesn't really want forty hours a week of officer Bob filling out paperwork, attending meetings, writing traffic tickets, etc.
No one else really does either.
All that's wanted is man-bite-dog stuff.
The solution you propose is both unnecessary and unwanted.
We should probably go with a system where the recordings of some government employees were merely stored and available for review as ReverendHellh0und suggested up thread.
Ftr, I think this is
already how the recording of government employees is handled, fwiw.
To be fair, they made a few reality tv shows about jackasses getting arrested. I do not blame you one bit for seldom seeing the shows though.
Only watched 'em when my kin were in 'em. ; )
Crooks being regular jackasses about getting arrested is kind of dog-bites-man territory.
You may be relieved to find out that neither Johnny nor Jill have any such protection or power (with the possible exception of some minors).
Bodycam footage as well as dashcam footage and any other regular surveillance footage is covered under the FOIA just like any other record.
Obviously, your mileage may vary from the reasonable opinions expressed above.