The Growth of Audio & Video FOIA Requests: Challenges & Best Practices

If you think redacting FOIA-related documents is long and tedious, wait until you have to deliver public records requests for audio and video files. It won’t get any easier, that’s for sure—especially if you already face a backlog of FOIA-related documents. 

Join OPEXUS in Washington, D.C. for lunch and a discussion about how: 

• 3.3 trillion hours of video surveillance footage are captured daily in the US.
• 50% of law enforcement agencies in the US use of body-worn cameras (BWCs) and seven states mandate their use. Even federal law enforcement agencies and departments of correction have begun using BWCs.
• 97% of Americans own a mobile device, driving accelerated growth in evidential media captured on video as a witness to a crime, an accident, or an event.
• The pandemic prompted an abrupt shift to remote work, with video conference platforms transforming into a normal way of conducting business. And they are now sources of audio and video evidentiary media in legal and criminal cases. 

Register today for a community discussion about how audio and video requests will disrupt existing FOIA processes and what you can do about it.