Before stepping down to run full-time for governor, then-Attorney General Jerry Kilgore ruled in a written opinion that Culpeper County Sheriff H. Lee Hart should not keep confidential the names and identities of individual, voluntary donors to his office, citing the state’s Freedom of Information Act. The sheriff wanted to keep donors anonymous, arguing the donors could receive unwanted solicitations from businesses if their names were leaked. Hart said he only kept donors nameless at their request.