Taxpayer group fighting Kane County over records

KANAB — An open-records fight between a taxpayer group and Kane County is getting expensive.

Taxpayer Association of Kane County head Sky Chaney says the county wants to charge $27,000 for records detailing what the county has spent fighting the federal government over ownership of roads on public lands.

The Kane County Commission has battled the Bureau of Land Management for more than a decade over ownership of roads in southern Utah's red-rock country.

The county has mostly lost federal court rulings and appeals.

But the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals plans to rehear issues about the removal of BLM road closure signs in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument and Glen Canyon National Recreation Area in 2003.