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Ohio has become the latest state to allow police to charge high fees for access to footage.

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[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 41 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What in the fuck is this? There's no way in hell anyone would approve a law like this if not to hide police actions

Link me the GoFundMe for the guillotine and I'll contribute from Europe

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Just for the record, axes are less expensive, more portable and generally more efficient.

[–] SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 week ago

Perhaps, but a guillotine is a monument, a rallying cry, and a clear and obvious warning.

It’s not meant to be practical ;)

[–] gibmiser@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago

There we go. That's capitalism. We can have justice and transparency as long as someone can make a profit off it

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 20 points 1 week ago

How can this be legal except that it’s a rightwing state and rational governance doesn’t apply.

[–] baggins@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If there's a limit of $750 for a single request can someone just submit a request for all of the footage from every camera for an entire year

[–] Cort@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Your request has been denied as it is overly broad. Please narrow your request to one case and re-submit after paying the $750 application fee again.

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm so happy this headline is in all caps. There's no way I could have truly understood it without that emphasis.

[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago

Brave of you to say what others weren’t thinking. Did you click the link, and look at the headline on the Intercept’s news site? Did it look different? Is that my fault too? Should I alter it and change the format of copy that an entire news organization, editors and journalists decided on? Should that be for me to say? Should it be yours? Does it really matter?

[–] Linktank@lemmy.today 2 points 1 week ago