in a fit of ridiculous transphobia, the crown prosecutor (a muslim woman) made a dramatic show of pointing at me and screaming, at the top of her lungs: "your application for housing is illegitimate, and YOU ARE NOT WELCOME HERE!!!!".
...which made everybody in the court room kind of gasp. it was like something you'd expect to see in saudi arabia.
while her dramatic attempt to other me as an unwelcome queer failed horribly, it also seems to have been completely scrubbed. it didn't appear in the transcript (which cost me $150), and it didn't appear in the audio, which i got via court order. it was blacked out in disclosure. and, the foia request i got denied it to me under the argument that it might be used against her.
no, really, that's the argument - we can't disclose this, because it might be used against her in a case against her. i have to get it via court order...
so, i sent in a court order. and, even if the justice doesn't want to overrule the cops, it sure makes her look bad to refuse disclosure under what amounts to some kind of abstract 5th.