Christopher “Denver Metro Audits” Cordova apparently made a successful records request at the Jefferson County Sherrif’s office on Tuesday, after multiple failed attempts to get video footage from his time spent in jail last month.
Cordova had been jailed for 15 days in the Jefferson County Jail in Golden last month as part of his sentencing for Federal charges stemming from an incident at a Social Security Administration building in 2022.
Because Cordova’s sentence was so short, federal authorities sent him to a local lockup to serve his time. He inexplicably served an extra day in jail, which is common in the prison system, and has threatened to sue for compensation based on his 32 hours of extra time in the facility.
Tuesday’s records request came as Cordova continues to attempt to obtain footage of his time in jail. He said he had already been denied a request for security camera footage earlier in the day of his time within the federal court system for footage from his most recent court hearing. Cordova promised would send his lawyer to force the government to release the footage.
Cordova’s livestream from Tuesday consisted of over an hour and five minutes of Cordova filling out forms on a tablet provided by the Sherrif’s department. It is part of Cordova’s new policy to film every interaction with the police and while auditing, including lengthy periods where nothing of value happened.
He indicated that his records requests on Tuesday included all footage of him while he was held in jail along with all of the employee records of those who interacted with him at the jail. He was also demanding the invoice of the last mattress order from the jail along with total cost of the mattresses used by the jail.
Cordova had previously complained bitterly about the thinness of the mattresses provided by the jail and shared an anecdote about another prisoner who was punished for using two mattresses at a time after his cell mate was reassigned to another part of the jail.
As Cordova handed in his records request, the records supervisor explained that she’ll be in contact with him if any of the footage requests required a payment and would not start pulling the footage until he had paid what was due.
Complaining to his viewers that he would more than likely lose money obtaining footage for his personal documentary, he also explained that the rules against using the obtained footage for profit did not apply to him.
He claimed that those rules only applied to attorneys who were trying to drum up clients and use the footage in advertisements and the government could not stop him from putting out his documentary.
Cordova ended his live stream shortly after turning in his requests to the records workers.
Christopher must have asked for specific cameras at specific dates and times. I seriously doubt the jail is going to hand over recordings from every single camera for 24 hours a day for 2 weeks! He must be looking for something specific, and my guess is a lawsuit to try to make himself rich.
He says he has time stamps and dates of specific video footage documenting every moment he believed he was on camera, and that’s what he wants from the jail.
His chances of getting all of it are slim to none, of course.