A lawsuit challenges the Boulder Police Department’s insistence that a news organization pay the city nearly $3,000 to get video of a 2023 fatal shooting of a 51-year-old woman by officers.

Yellow Scene Magazine requested the body-worn and dash-cam footage under Colorado’s Law Enforcement Integrity Act, passed in 2020 following the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. The law does not have a fee provision, and it sets a timetable for the required release of unedited video and audio recordings of incidents “in which there is a complaint of peace officer misconduct.”

Yet Boulder police refused to promptly release video from the Dec. 17, 2023, shooting of Jeanette Alatorre near the North Boulder Recreation Center, according to a complaint filed in Boulder District Court on Wednesday, and it demanded payment of $2,857.50 from Yellow Scene before it would make the footage public. The police department initially quoted lawyer Dan Williams, who represents Yellow Scene, $8,484 to review the video before releasing it, the lawsuit says.