The litigants head to court again in an open records dispute arising from the Finance and Administration Cabinet's partial (virtually blanket) denial of Courier Journal reporter Tom Loftus's open records request for emails from and to the state's handsomely compensated Chief Information Officer, Charles Grindle, -- and its failure to comply with the fundamental requirements of the open records law -- in what has become agency-wide standard operating procedure.

More delays, more taxpayer dollars expended, and more insults to the public's right to know by an agency that has engaged in a course of conduct which strongly suggests concealment of public records with an intent to violate the open records law. KRS 61.991(2).