The Flagstaff City Council has decided to follow a new state law that allows cities to implement their own fees for obtaining body camera footage. The law was passed in the last Congress and went into effect in October. Flagstaff was one of the first cities in the state to use body cameras on police officers. Flagstaff Police Chief Dan Musselman made the request before the City Council on Tuesday. “We would like to seek recovery of the $46 fee for each hour of edited video under state law,” Musselman said at Tuesday's City Council meeting. The new rates will help offset the cost of video requests. If the request is for the entire hour, the fee is $46. The smaller the video size, the lower the cost. From July 2022 to July of last year, Flagstaff police received more than 130 requests for footage, and it took more than 200 hours just to review them. The Coconino County Sheriff's Office's rate was $85 an hour, but the county Board of Supervisors approved reducing the rate to comply with the new law. The council passed the ordinance on Tuesday. A second reading and final vote on the ordinance will take place at the Feb. 6 meeting.