Section 14-14-112 - Bulk copying of public records(a) In the absence of an existing agreement or county ordinance, a county official may negotiate with a commercial, nonpress entity that requests public records in bulk regarding a reasonable fee for mass duplication, copying, or bulk electronic access of public records.(b) A negotiated agreement authorized by this section is not to the exclusion of any right to a public record a person has under this subchapter or § 25-19-109.(c) As used in this section, "existing agreement" means a contract, custom, practice, or dealings that were in use as of January 1, 2011.(d)(1) A county that receives a request for bulk public records by a commercial, nonpress entity shall provide nonencrypted, bulk public records in the format requested, as long as the requested format exists in the software.(2)(A) If the county contracts with a third-party electronic record provider, the electronic record provider shall enable the county to extract the public records in a common file format that does not disclose the proprietary software code of the third-party electronic record provider and does not impair the accessibility and usability of the data.(B) As used in subdivision (d)(2)(A) of this section, "common file format" includes without limitation the American Standard Code for Information Interchange and, for large databases, comma-separated values.(3)(A) Electronic public records provided under this subsection shall not include redacted data.(B) This subsection does not apply to audio or video file formats.Amended by Act 2021, No. 1075,§ 4, eff. 7/28/2021.Amended by Act 2021, No. 1075,§ 3, eff. 7/28/2021.