Jail videotapes, not meant to be retained, not public records

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The Missouri Supreme Court ruled in Hemeyer v. KRCG-TV that videotapes made during the booking of a state representative into a county jail were not "public records" subject to public disclosure under the state opens records law. The law plainly requires that a record must be retained in order to be a public record, the court noted. In this instance, videotapes used to monitor the jail were taped over every four days.

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911 audiotapes are not public records: court finds tape exempt as 'noncriminal incident report'

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The Virginia Supreme Court ruled in Tull v. Brown that recordings of a 911 call regarding a child who had stopped breathing need not be disclosed to the media under the Freedom of Information Act. The Court ruled it was an exempt noncriminal incident report. The news media argued that the sheriff's office did not create or fund the system that recorded the tape and acted merely as the tape's custodian.

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Police videotapes of bookings are public records

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The Missouri Supreme Court ruled Hemeyer v. KRCG-TV that police videotapes of criminal suspects' bookings were public records and ordered the county seeking their closure to pay legal costs for withholding them.

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