Crowd-Funding Campaign: Get The Emails Of Kim Davis

The website MuckRock has launched a crowd-funding campaign to obtain the emails of Kim Davis. Under the Kentucky Open Records Act, Davis is required to hand over her emails upon request, but she tells MuckRock that each email must be printed and physically mailed because she’s “old school.” And she wants $1200 for that. They write:

A couple days before Davis was jailed for contempt of court, I requested all of her emails from the past month. When news of her visit to the Vatican embassy broke, I submitted additional requests for emails with papal keywords. To the credit of the Rowan County clerk’s office, I emailed both requests directly to Ms. Davis, and received relatively timely replies from Kim herself. On this front, her office beats the NYPD and the CIA, which accept records requests solely by postal mail and fax, respectively, and often fail to provide an initial response for months. But Ms. Davis replied that her inbox from the past month piled up to more than 6,000 emails, which would cost $1,200 to obtain. More than half of that fee estimate was for photocopies and postage.

Hit the link to learn more if you’d like to pitch in.