It's not 50 hours of footage, they're pulling 50 hours out of their ass as the amount of time it will take to edit the footage. $60x50hr of editing=$3k
Do you know that? We now know we had 10 officers involved in a search warrant and search of a large hovel full of crap, plus arrests, bookings etc. Dash cams are probably included unless someone crapped up the FOIA request.
4-5 hours is not that unreasonable for a call like this, pretty standard really. Despite my retarded Rekieta tier math in my last explanation of the ORR process. Fifty hours total is not that far-fetched.
The Way This Goes (minus the MN retardation):
- Request is made, reviewed for completeness and compliance with FOIA. This is where most agencies are the most obtuse. "Oh, we need the 10 day extension to check with the AG and verify we HAVE to release this."
- The BodyCams are identified and the files identified by either incident or date/time.
- EVERY file is aggregated and then has to be watched all the way though to identify sensitive or other views, that need to be redacted to comply with HIPPA or other privacy laws. This can be done with pencil and paper or paused and flagged inside the same software used to edit.
- Then gone through and redacted, muted, blurred or marked up. A one hour video could easily take 5-6 to complete that process.
- Then it is reviewed, so watched again and re-edited if necessary, exported and parked on the ORR site for downloading or exported to media compatible with common systems (flash drive, DVD, etc.).
I pulled $60/hour because of a highly specialized role. I was assigned requests ONLY when they were touchy or very complex. Your average custodian of records ia somewhere between $15-$20/hour with department heads in the $30/range (Source: Post retirement boredom and subsequent job searches).
FOIA is a federal thing. How each state complies varies. But across the board, there are limited types of records that can be assigned fees to recover costs. Run sheets, simple data pulls, etc. Also there's a time threshold required to charge. Ours was 1.5 hours, where fees were permitted and then in increments of .3 hours.
A big deal like this could shut down a podunk county like this if they couldn't cover the deluge of requests they're getting.

I may have a thought there.
i dont buy it
if you go through all the trouble to go on a trip to a swinger hotel, surely you would bring viagra?
Viagra has its limits.
YES!
Fight the good fight! I want to see that body can footage so badly.
The PD is likely reacting in the usual regarded way for small rural police departments.
“Oh noes, this makes the community look bad! Set a high price and they’ll stop asking!”
Little do they know that this footage is easily worth tens of thousands of dollars. Nevermind the views the lawtube yards are fighting over. It could be a career maker for some small channel.
This and the excuse of "ongoing investigations is bull shit. The warrant, affidavit, inventory and report are all public. You see PDs release BodyCam on active cases all of the time, especially when they are being grilled or accused of offing a black man for no reason.
NOTE: Maybe that's it! Barnes' conspiracy sperging to all of his following is really 4D chess. He's working for us to get that footage!
Obviously you freaks have broken me.
You think Kyle has any tales about Rackets trying to proselytize the Church of the Balldo? I vaguely recall some borderline inappropriate comments toward Kyle onstream that he kinda laughed off
He looked so embarrassed! Screw you Nick.
Oof! Kurt says he'll probably post the bodycam footage if it comes out.
That poor celiac autist is just now getting to the "acceptance" stage of grief. He was pitiful calling Nick "my friend" after the way Nick has abused him over and over.
Oh dear lord, please have them read that aloud in court as evidence of how fucked and drunk he is on a regular basis!
“Mr Rekieta, what do you mean by ‘vaginal liquor’?!?”
“Mr Rekieta, in your years in the legal profession, have you ever come across a judge pouring liquor out of her vagina?”
Another reason to accept his faults, clean up and get rehab and no little amount of counseling. But he won't hear the hundreds of us that have warned, begged and ridiculed him to get help.
Go ahead Nick, you know you're a target of the deep state. Fight this. Take it all the way, you have a duty. I'll sit back and watch the collapse of a narcissistic wife abuser and child neglector. Make SURE those videos come in.
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Edit: She said she tried calling everyone she could possibly think of but couldn't get a hold of anyone. Ended up just giving me this email and said someone would get in contact with me if I sent an email. Said she wasn't sure if the body cam footage could be released to a private citizen or not.
Absolute bullshit. There's such an avalanche of legislation, AG opinions and case law saying it is releasable; given certain safeguards. Agencies still try to strain at the gnat to find a way to delay or stop the release because they are almost always acting out of school.
FOIA overrides all of that. Of course they can decide not to wear their cameras at all. That works for the ATF.
Correct. The claim of not being fed came from one of the 4 that talked to the pastor. Now, could the cop have seen Aaron mention the spaghettios story, sure. And that would only support the claim of the teacher. So while the claim doesn't come from Aaron, having a second independent source say the same thing would be interesting to the cop.
RAS becomes probable cause.
Aaron, the Liar claimed that the $3,000 was actually the month's grocery bills, and the reason it was framed as snacks is because it was all ready-to-eat foods that didn't require someone putting together as a meal.
With our specialized diets, a third of my monthly goes to groceries and that's without being prepackaged. But if we could eat those things, we could load up on Little Debbies, chips and a few cans of Spaghetti Os and work an ounce of coke in to boot.
Added in Edit: Charging fees under FOIA is very carefully regulated. The agency has to justify and document the charges in detail. Most AGs have people that audit and handle what goes on in their states. The feds can and have hammered agencies for obstructionism and fee gouging.