Governor Andy Beshear has vetoed SB 48, an open records bill that was cobbled together in the waning hours of the 2021 legislative session. The bill served no legitimate public purpose. It would have impeded access to public records and it would have presented enormous logistical challenges for public agencies.

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In issuing the veto, the Governor explained that SB 48 was "overly broad" and "impractical." He expressed the belief that the public safety concerns ostensibly supporting SB 48 are better addressed in Sen. Wil Schroder's Senate Bill 267, an anti-doxxing bill.

Beshear signed SB 267 into law on Thursday.

A pause button for bullheaded lawmakers, perhaps, but an opportunity to rethink a poorly conceptualized, poorly worded law that falsely assigns blame to the Open Records Act for endemic violence.