What is his actual lawyer job, btw? I just checked his twitter and he seems to be way more terminally online than I thought.
I can’t believe how badly Nick squandered all this.
Just the harbinger of Nick's choice to completely cease. No rep, no job, no family. But coke, whores and alcohol... I guess.
The brown brown shit is a movie thing for cartel members and African warlords.
With all of the Balldos around, I'd handle in full PPE.
Goddamn right. Thank you for hammering that. One of the more obnoxious rhetorical flourishes of the noseguards.
Making the same mistake over, and over, and over again, for months, does not equate to "ONE" or "A" mistake. Math applies.
And by the time a man embarks on a months long cocaine run, he already has a trail of fuck ups behind him like bread crumbs.
The noseguards who whimper "One mistake!" really mean only one arrest for possession and neglect.
And none of them were "mistakes". I hate that. A
mistake is when you parallel park and crack a tail light. These were choices, maybe they became inextricable but they were CHOICES you monster.
That latest Dragon's Treasure video finally matches the palpable anger and rage people should have right now.
And everything, every last item was true. I sure don't want to answer for supporting evil doers. Neither should anybody else. Doing so is completely depraved and Godless.
If I was in charge of the FOIA money fund I'd use that money to hire a lawyer and sue the department for the footage. 3k is an incredibly unreasonable amount of money to ask for some body cam footage and CANNOT be standard practice.
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Post from a guy who hosts body cam footage on YouTube for a living says he received 10gb worth of body cam footage from one agency for $60, and another charged him $2.1k. They shouldn't be able to name their price, and it shouldn't cost $3k. FBI charged me $0 for 700 pages I requested. I'd rather pay the lawyer for the same outcome either way personally.
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I've known a bit about this. For FOIA, data logs w/o sensitive data (I had queries that would select public facing information only) typically there's no fee.
Our AG had narrowed the field pretty significantly but SCOTUS has held up fees for "certain types of records". If I pulled a 911 tape for an internal or criminal investigation, it didn't need to be sanitized. Just a selection of a range, find the call and lift it.
But if a FOIA from the public comes in, there's information that HIPPA or other privacy regulations cover. So those have to be sanitized. The average time edited was probably a .3 hour charge as the initial identifying info is typically up front. But you do have to listen to the whole tape to ensure no other PHI/PII finds its way in. A .3 hr wouldn't get charged under our policies which were a bit more conservative than ORA laws.
But let's say that the call is particularly of interest to the public zeitgeist and the agency gets a conservative 50 requests. Well the .3 hours to produce the MP3 and then having to be placed by a certain procedure 50 times. So now you're over an hour, hour and a half? So each person can be billed one fiftieth of that or a nominal fee for each response can be set.
The point being, when personnel are busy fulfilling ORRs, and within time limits (that's defined by law), Redacted printout of run sheets, for example, you had 14 days. Typically that was the same for most records, a little more time for archival records. BUT time can be added based on legal review, AG opinion, etc. Or by declaration if an incident is complex and/or extensive.
So let's look at the BodyCam records. How many responding officers were there? Were other agencies coordinating? How long were the responses?
Let's say five officers with a 2 hour record. Some from the PD, maybe some from the sheriff. That's 10 hours of video after locating, coordinating and aggregating. That's
before sanitizing.
This is a public facing (FOIA) so juveniles have to be blurred in software, non involved and even some INVOLVED identifiers need to be blurred as well; such as license plates, house numbers, etc. That takes time as well. There is no machine answer to organic recording.
And finally, every minute has to be watched and then reviewed after sanitation. If your Spicer (county?) steward of records is a fairly big position and say they pull $30/hr, you're at $3000 before anything is done.
In my case, they would charge for paying me $60/hr for chasing down the FOIA records instead of doing my full time job. Of course that meant that I wouldn't pull the request unless it was particularly sensitive, complex or otherwise "touchy".
TL;DR: Agencies aren't just setting their own prices. They are recouping costs according to state and federal law.
