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When you file a FOIA (or similar open records request), you have to pay for the files. These fees add up, even when they’re low, and sometimes the fee is relatively low - for instance, the Israel Keyes interviews we recently shared for free on the Viktoria Evans YouTube channel cost us about $50.
However, sometimes the fee is extremely expensive. The reason the Israel Keyes interviews only cost us $50 is that the redaction expenses had already been paid by someone else (the files have to be redcated of non public information).
We know who paid them, and we know that those fees were close to $2,000 USD. There are dozens of record requests we have waiting for the funds to pay for them, and only you can make that possible.
These files also require extensive work once you get them. The Israel Keyes files, for instance, arrived as a series of meaningless and seemingly random file names that took several days just to download via a confusing government portal - we’re still not totally sure we actually got all of the files, although we believe that we did. Still more files were sent to us through the mail via thumb drive.
Then we spent months combing through, organizing, listening to and reviewing them to spend several more months taking the time to annotate, timestamp, and edit them so that they could be shared in a meaningful way (and to reference for our exhaustive documentary on Keyes).
Besides the fees we pay to have files redacted by government employees who earn a salary from the taxes we all already pay, a lot of equipment is also required to do this work, even in this new digital era where everyone’s an influencer using just their phone.
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