The Courier Journal today reported on its April 17 Court of Appeals victory over the Kentucky State Police in an open records dispute involving access to KSP's uniform citation records keeping system.

The Courier notes that this is "the second unanimous ruling in a month in which the court found the agency wrongly denied records requests. On March 27, [the court] said state police cited several bogus grounds for withholding disciplinary records on a trooper sought by [Spencer County] blogger Lawrence Trageser."

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"KSP is known for denying requests under the Kentucky Open Records Act," the Courier observes.

Citing 33 Kentucky Attorney General decisions since 2013 finding that KSP violated the open records law, Courier reporter Andrew Wolfson writes that "[i]n November, WDRB.com reported that its de[nials] over the previous five years had been reversed by the attorney general's office more than any other agency."

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Wolfson reports that KSP Commissioner Rodney Brewer did not respond to the Courier's request for comment.

A spokeswoman for the state Justice Cabinet advises the Courier that it will not ask the Kentucky Supreme Court to review the Court of Appeals' opinion but will instead "work with the Kentucky State Police to overcome existing technological challenges in locating and producing these types of complex and voluminous records."