Special Fee Shifting Statute: Government Entity Is Entitled To Actual Expenditures To Produce A Copy Of Police Body Camera Video Recordings, Including Costs Of Extracting Exempt Material With The Aid Of Computer Programming

Costs Are Allowed Under Government Code Section 6253.9(b)(2).

            The First District, Division 3, in National Lawyers Guild, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter v. City of Hayward, Case No. A149328 (1^st Dist., Div. 3 Sept. 28, 2018) (published), decided that a City’s actual expenditures to produce a copy of police body camera video recordings, including the cost of extracting exempt material from these video recordings with the aid of special computer programming in the form of the Windows Movie Maker software, is a cost allowable to the governmental entity under the California Public Records Act, specifically, Government Code section 6253.9(b)(2).