The latest in the five year saga of university abuse of Kentucky's open records law.

The Western Kentucky University College Heights Herald reports that WKU's "compliance" with the Kentucky Supreme Court's scathing March 2021 opinion, University of Kentucky v The Kernel Press, falls substantially short of the legal mark.

https://casetext.com/case/univ-of-ky-v-kernel-press-inc

The newspaper reports that the nearly 1900 pages of responsive records released by WKU on May 28 were heavily redacted. The university masked information ranging from "what occurred to prompt the allegations, details of what happened in the investigations, and in some cases the names of faculty and staff supervisors who were informed of the investigations" to "words from two of its own policy documents which were part of the case file but are available in full on the university website."

The Heights Herald's attorney, Michael Abate vigorously objected to the university's actions.

"These redactions prove what we knew all along. . . . They weren't trying to respect students' privacy but WKU didn't want us to see how they had handled it."

This means more bad faith delays at the expense of taxpayers who will bear the cost of litigating issues that were fully and finally resolved in March when the Supreme Court rejected the same arguments advanced by UK behind which WKU now hides.