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Pataskala records commission backs draft policy to charge for police video requests under HB 315
Summary
The Pataskala City Records Commission recommended that City Council consider a draft law-enforcement video production policy aligned with House Bill 315, allowing fees for locating, redacting and producing bodycam or other law-enforcement video subject to statutory limits and a victim-cost waiver.
The Pataskala City Records Commission voted to recommend that City Council consider a draft policy allowing the city to charge requesters for the production of law-enforcement video, a change enabled by House Bill 315, which took effect April 1, 2025.
Commission staff presented a draft video-records policy that tracks the new statutory provisions and sets procedures for providing cost estimates, collecting payment, and performing redactions. Jess, records commission staff, told commissioners that the law permits charging for “finding…
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