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DeWine signs bill allowing fee increases for public video records, including from police
(www.dispatch.com)
But don't public tax dollars pay for the police force??
this post was submitted on 03 Jan 2025
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Our tax dollars pay for tons of things we are supposed to benefit from, but it seems like a lot of the time, we don't see those benefits we're supposed to be getting.
This sure seems like another way of making it easier to cover that bullshit up, especially when poor people are affected.
If you consider funds derived from fines, fees, and civil asset forfeiture taxes, then yeah.
I thought that was on top of the public funding. Greedy pigs.
With that point I could possibly see the justification for charging non-Ohioans (I think that’s what they’re called) but not residents. Just because I can see the justification in that doesn’t mean I agree with it though.
Does that mean that police will pay up to $750 for CCTV video footage requested for evidence now? Yeah I didn't think so.
Actually, I wonder if this could be used as a precedent for getting compensation when you have to comply with a subpoena.
Government: Rules for thee, not for me
I'd charge double and give at least half to the victims. I'll keep some for the cleaning costs of dealing with swine.
Suggest a law to help make it harder to reveal unintended consequences, but revise if unintended consequences happen. Got it
The unintended consequence would not shielding the police from accountability as much as they intended to.
Seems that charging fees like that will make it profitable to hire video editors to provide a "top notch highlighted edits reel" for every FOI reasons, what could possibly go wrong?