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 INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - In nine months, Ryan Nees has gone from a precocious, 15-year-old filmmaker to an open records activist whose latest foray cost the city of Kokomo more than $11,000.
Nees won that amount in attorney fees this week after the city lost a lawsuit he brought to force Kokomo Mayor Matt McKillip to turn over the e-mail addresses of subscribers to the city's electronic newsletter. Nees sued under Indiana's open records law after receiving campaign messages upon subscribing to the newsletter.
"I didn't so much become an advocate for public access until I was denied," said Nees, who will join journalists and advocates at the national Freedom of Information Summit, which runs Friday and Saturday in Indianapolis. "There was a certain amount of indignation there."
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