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It's rare that a single sentence can tell me so clearly whether or not I'd be willing to work at a company.

The actual article could be misleading (it's not obvious if setting their RTO status to "natural disaster" status means they expend their sick days or not), but this is so clearly petty micromanagement that there's really no ambiguity.

Employees are penalized for PTO if they cannot work from home (e.g. wifi issues, evac orders)

If they can still work from home, they can use the "natural disaster" exception.

If they are working why do they need an exception?

Because they normally have mandatory work-from-office days during which you're not allowed to WFH. So now you can get an exception for that

I might take a dozen screenshots a day for various reasons not connected to communicating with journalists. This seems like a low signal to noise way of monitoring employees.

And I thought the years I had to use Amazon Chime was bad….