Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine is evaluating whether he wants to sign a bill into law that could charge the public hundreds of dollars for footage from law enforcement agencies, including body cameras.
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine is evaluating whether he wants to sign a bill into law that could charge the public hundreds of dollars for footage from law enforcement agencies, including body cameras.
So public funds paid for it, and he’s saying the public should then pay to see it? I’d be interested to hear what Mikey thinks about the Ohio Open Records Law, specifically where the Ohio Supreme Court said, "all citizens “have a right to as full knowledge of all the official acts of their officers as the officers themselves have, so as to enable them to ascertain whether their officers have performed their duty in such manner as is acceptable to them with a view to determine whether they will continue them in office or not.” The court added: [T]he records in the auditor’s office are the public records of the people of Hamilton county, bought with their money, kept in a public place built with their money, and in the charge of public officials paid by their money and selected by them. The officials in charge of these books, therefore, can be no other than trustees in possession of property belonging to the people of Hamilton county. "
Only fair if they are paying $1.00 for the DVD it is written to.
These records could be posted online for download for free*.
Who the fuck it’s paying a whole dollar per dvd these days?
DVD media, a case, and the labor to load it into a burner probably averages out to a buck.
You don’t get to include the labor. They’re a public employee whose labor is already paid for by the public.
DVDs are < $25/100 and paper envelope cases are $30/1000 so about $.28/dvd fully packaged.
You should see what the cost used to be for court reporter transcripts.