# Surveillance Record Persistence **Domain:** Austin Research / Surveillance **Doc Type:** Concept **Source basis:** Supplied essay and the specifically identified records; verification scope is recorded in [[wiki/Austin Surveillance Evidence Ledger|the evidence ledger]]. **Surveillance record persistence** is the continued existence, discoverability, or operational influence of a record after the encounter or judgment that created it has changed. It concerns caches, indexes, copies, analytical products, and downstream decisions as well as the source record itself. The Austin essay identifies two concrete questions. In its ARIC reporting examples, what happened to a report after an analyst found no criminal or terrorism nexus? In the LEAP lineage, what happened to contributed city records after a provider transition? These require different evidence: retention and dissemination logs in the first case, transfer and migration records in the second. Austin’s LEAP agreement retains city ownership and responsibility for contributed data while enabling shared access. The OneDOJ privacy assessment likewise assigns accuracy to contributors and describes source-specific retention and corroboration requirements. Ownership therefore does not by itself answer whether a stale copy remains searchable elsewhere. The technical problem is propagation of revised state. Correction, deletion, expiration, and withdrawal need an accountable route through downstream representations. This connects to [[wiki/Continuous Reconciliation|Continuous Reconciliation]], [[wiki/Information Asymmetry|Information Asymmetry]], and the portability of a machine-maintained model across institutional changes. The essay’s proposed survival of Austin records inside CrimeTracer remains a testable custody hypothesis. Neither a surviving product name nor a large contemporary index proves that particular migration. ## Connected entries [[wiki/Law Enforcement Analysis Portal|Law Enforcement Analysis Portal]] · [[wiki/LEAP Provider Transition|LEAP Provider Transition]] · [[wiki/OneDOJ|OneDOJ]] · [[wiki/Suspicious Activity Reporting|Suspicious Activity Reporting]] · [[wiki/Continuous Reconciliation|Continuous Reconciliation]] · [[wiki/Information Asymmetry|Information Asymmetry]] · [[wiki/CrimeTracer|CrimeTracer]] ## Sources and corpus context - [[research/The Austin Surveillance Field|The Austin Surveillance Field]] - [City of Austin — LEAP interlocal agreement, recitals and §§2–7](https://services.austintexas.gov/edims/document.cfm?id=176641) - [DOJ — OneDOJ privacy impact assessment, §§3 and 5](https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/jmd/legacy/2013/11/23/onedoj-pia.pdf) - [NCTCOG — FY2014 comprehensive annual financial report, PDF p. 10, provider transition](https://www.nctcog.org/getmedia/cb64f213-b8d5-4332-aae2-8cabe5354be1/CAFR2014.pdf?ext=.pdf) **Cluster:** [[wiki/Austin Surveillance Field|Austin Surveillance Field]] · [[wiki/Austin Executable Loop|Austin Executable Loop]] · [[wiki/Austin Surveillance Evidence Ledger|Austin Surveillance Evidence Ledger]]