"Kentucky's high court on Thursday chastised the University of Kentucky while stressing the obligations of public agencies to comply with the open records act. Justice Hughes wrote that those obligations were 'ignored or minimized by the university at every step in this case.'

"Even if it considered the records requests ill-advised, the university 'is not authorized to decide what public records must be disclosed and what records can lawfully be withheld,' she wrote. 'Those decisions are ultimately for the courts within the parameters' of open records law."