Spokane County says a YouTube cottage industry is forcing them to consider charging a fee for body cam footage from the sheriff’s office.
Police recordings get quick clicks on YouTube and other social media platforms. But Spokane County Public Records Coordinator Tony Dinaro says it takes a long time to do the proper redaction for body cam recordings.
“We do have a lot of requesters who run monetized YouTube channels and they make very voluminous requests for body camera footage,” he said at a commissioner meeting this week. “Because that has really slowed down our public disclosure process in the sheriff’s office, we looked at this possibility of charging in order to recoup some of that time.”…