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At the end of Ark Encounter's second year, AiG reported an attendance of 1 million visitors for the year. Subsequently, The Courier-Journal reported that the Freedom From Religion Foundation had disputed those numbers based upon data obtained through open records requests made to Grant County. According to the Foundation, the amount of money collected by the Grant County via its safety assessment fee on ticket sales indicated that only 862,471 people visited the attraction between July 2017 and June 2018. Attendance in July to September 2018 was below the attendance of the same months in 2017. In response, AiG spokesman Mark Looy told the paper that this method for calculating attendance was not reliable because it did not include non-paying guests such as children under 5, annual pass holders, and those with lifetime passes, all of whom are admitted to the park for free, while Ken Ham described the 862,471 figure as "fake news". The figure disputed by Ham is the one provided by AiG to the city of Williamsburg.