I'm amazed that WA doesn't have a provision for rejecting non-specific and burdensome requests. Whatever the motives this is clearly abusive use of FOIA, and the potential good is far outweighed by the burden on core services. What do you want to bet that an amendment to that end gets on the docket asap?
Kristopher Stenson
Electronic Records Archivist
Illinois State Archives
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Subject: Seattle police may dump plans for body cams, citing records requests
that plan may get put on ice, due in part to an overly broad public records requests. *The Seattle Times* reported <http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2025060346_spdcamerasxml.html> this morning that an anonymous man, known only by the email address [log in to unmask], has made an official request for "details on every 911 dispatch on which officers are sent; all the written reports they produce; and details of each computer search generated by officers when they run a person’s name, or check a license plate or address."
The requestor also wants all video from patrol car cameras currently in use, and plans to request video from body cams once they are implemented.
He has requested the information "every day, in spreadsheet form."
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