County attorney reports roughly 2,800 open-records requests in 2025, driven by bodycam and crash videos

County Attorney Virginia Harman told the Floyd County Board of Commissioners on Dec. 9 that the County Clerk's Office has received a significant increase in open-records requests in 2025, primarily for police body-worn camera and crash videos that individuals are posting to YouTube and other pages. "The number of requests number around 2,800 for the year," Harman said, and noted that redacting personal information from video records is a lengthy process.

Harman's report was delivered during the Attorney's Report portion of the agenda and was not tied to any immediate motion or vote. The increase in requests has administrative and staff-time implications for the clerk's office and potentially for law-enforcement record workflows.

The transcript does not include an estimate of additional staffing or budget requests to address the workload; no linked motion was recorded during the meeting.