@stluciesheriff - we have a special message for you. We have emailed a complaint to the county administrator addressing the issues discussed in the intro. As US citizens, we are entitled to transparency in the form public records that are typically easily obtainable. Video requests do require additional labor for review and redaction, and we are all in full support of paying a reasonable cost associated with that. Unfortunately, the St. Lucie County Sheriff’s office is far from reasonable. To simply get an estimate, the requestor must pay a minimum nonrefundable deposit of $100. We found an arrest that seemed very interesting and decided to pay the $100. Shortly after, the department sent an estimate for $980. We figured this was for over 20 hours of footage and modified the request to reduce the associated labor. To our surprise, the revised estimate was $420.00 for 12 hours of labor at $35/hour. At this point, we decided to pay the additional $320.00 assuming we would get 8-10 hours of footage. We received less than 2.5 hours of footage that was unreasonably redacted. Information that falls under public records was redacted and they even went as far redacting officer name tags, information that should be made available. Mandatory deposits, inflated estimates, and excessive redaction can only be explained as the department intentionally putting up barriers to reduce transparency to the public. On May 9, 2024, St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office responded to a call at a local popeye’s where people were reportedly vandalizing the place after they became tired of waiting for their food. In the end, the suspects were charged with felony criminal mischief and the St. Lucie County records department can kiss our a**es. If you like this video and want to see more like it, subscribe to Arrest Cam. As always, thanks for watching.