Looks like this too, is becoming a common practice that is not restricted to Kentucky.

Two thoughts:

1. The public agency has an awful lot of explaining to do. The Kentucky Supreme Court has stated that in denying all or any part of a request, the agency "should provide the requesting party and the court with sufficient information about the nature of the withheld record (or the categories of the withheld records) to permit the requester to dispute the claim [of exemption] and the court to assess it."

This means that the agency must justify its denial with specificity. It has the burden of proof and what it must prove is that it properly denied the request.

Good luck making "a sufficient factual showing to justify the exemption[s]" for multiple entirely redacted pages.

2. This is tantamount to a blanket denial. Why waste time and toner pretending that it is anything else? And why add fuel to the fire by charging the requester for entirety redacted copies?

That open records issue is, like so many others, now in the Franklin Circuit Court.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.courier-journal.com/amp/3069668002