Texas city wants $2.3M for public records on police Flock use
A Fort Worth suburb has told a privacy group it would cost $2.3M to release records on how its police use Flock number plate cameras, a figure reached by estimating 14 years of labour at $15 an hour. Under the EU’s law enforcement directive the same information has to be logged as a matter of course and handed to the data protection authority on request.
A Texas city has told a privacy group it would cost $2.3M to see how its police use Flock cameras. It reached that figure by estimating 14 years of labour at $15 an hour. Another handed over 400,000 pages for nothing.
North Richland Hills, a Fort Worth suburb, said searching about a terabyte of communications about errors, misuse and effectiveness would take that long, as the Texas Tribune reported. Sealy charged nothing. Irving asked $70,000 for records Carrollton released free.
A Houston television station,...
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