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Ross County moves to adopt fee policy for time‑intensive body‑camera records requests
Summary
Commissioners discussed a new public‑records fee policy aimed at deterring commercial scraping of body‑camera footage and authorized staff to pursue a formal policy for adoption; the change would allow agencies to charge labor costs for lengthy requests, with waivers for victims and essential needs.
Ross County commissioners discussed a proposed public‑records fee policy that would allow the county to charge for labor‑intensive requests for body‑camera and other long‑form video files.
Speaker 17, who described the problem as “YouTube channels where they basically [post] body cam after body cam,” argued the county should apply charges when requesters seek voluminous…
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