A Texas city wants $2.3 million for records another gave out free.
North Richland Hills wants $2.3 million before it will release records on its Flock plate cameras. The city billed $15 an hour to search a terabyte of email, about fourteen years of work. A privacy group asked nearly 200 Texas agencies, and one city sent 400,000 pages for free.
Why it mattersPublic records law is how you find out what the cameras on your street actually do. A fee no resident can pay shuts that door without changing any law.
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