The Boulder Police Department is not allowed to charge thousands of dollars in fees for body-worn camera footage requested by the public under Colorado’s 2020 Law Enforcement Integrity Act, a judge ruled Monday.

An order issued late in the day by Boulder County District Court Judge Robert Gunning supports arguments made by lawyers for Yellow Scene Magazine and Jeannette Orozco, whose 51-year-old mother, Jeanette Alatorre, was shot and killed by Boulder officers in 2023.

Yellow Scene and Orozco sued the city over the department’s insistence that they pay $2,857.50 to obtain video of the shooting, contending the state law enacted after the deaths of George Floyd and Elijah McClain does not permit the charging of fees for unedited body-cam footage of incidents “in which there is a complaint of peace officer misconduct.”