FLAGSTAFF — Obtaining police body camera footage in Flagstaff will no longer be free after the City Council voted to implement a new fee Tuesday night.

The Flagstaff Police Department has asked that the hourly rate for its officers who review and edit body camera footage be set at $46 an hour, the maximum allowed under new state law. These fees will be waived if the victim requests a copy of the report or body camera footage.

The police department received approximately 136 public records requests involving body camera footage from July 2022 to July 2023, and staff spent more than 200 hours reviewing footage during this period. Rick Tadder, director of management services, said the company would have made more than $9,200 under the new fee structure.