"LVMPD price gouges the public out of access to public records, allowing it to operate without transparency and accountability to the public they are meant to serve," a briefing accompanying the lawsuit asserts. The law specifically excludes costs that an agency would incur anyways while preserving public records, even if a request for the records is never filed. In another instance, The Marshall Project submitted a records request that produced 312 pages of records for a $460 fee. Months later, a records request that the lawsuit describes as similar produced 215 pages of records — but for twice the price, at $940. A Nevada public records request that includes a fee costs $3,573 on average, according to the government transparency-focused nonprofit Muckrock.