Burning Man sues BLM to prevent release of financial records that detail ticket strategy

The Burning Man Project is again suing the federal government, this time to prevent the release of its financial records to a Pershing County official who believes the county deserves more money from the Burning Man nonprofit.

Burning Man annually holds the 80,000-person arts festival in the Black Rock Desert, a portion of which is located in Pershing County. The 2020 event was recently canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Pershing County each year is required per a 2013 settlement to staff law enforcement and other resources at the festival in return for a stipend of approximately $240,000 a year. In 2019, the Burning Man Project paid the county more than $296,000, according to the Nevada News Group in Pershing County.

The nonprofit is suing the Bureau of Land Management, which oversees the event's security and issues its permit, as well as the agency's deputy director, Holly Vinall. The case was filed two weeks ago in the U.S. District Court of Northern California.

Read more: https://www.rgj.com/story/life/arts/burning-man/2020/04/29/burning-man-sues-blm-prevent-release-financial-records/3050608001/
(Reno Gazette Journal)