Kentucky Lantern: Court fight raises doubts about Cameron’s commitment to transparency
Berry Craig
Needless battle to withhold documents about Ballot Integrity Task Force is part of a pattern, say advocates for open records
By DEBORAH YETTER
Denied records it sought in 2020 from Attorney General Daniel Cameron about a Ballot Integrity Task Force he co-chairs, American Oversight, a national advocacy group, pressed on.
And that set up an ongoing legal battle that open records advocates say was unnecessary and shows Cameron is unwilling to release even the most routine documents related to his office.
American Oversight “got stonewalled by the attorney general,” said Amye Bensenhaver, co-director of the Kentucky Open Government Coalition, which tracks access to public information on its Facebook page.