The problem rears its ugly head again. It knows no party lines and is no respecter of person.

To be clear, I'm posting this because it directly relates to open records and records access. This practice has become perhaps the single greatest threat to access in Kentucky — both open records and open meetings — since Attorney General Jack Conway gave the green light to use of private devices to conduct public business in 2015 and Senator Damon Thayer unsuccessfully attempted to exclude public officials' communications about public business on private devices from the definition of the term "public record" in 2017.

Any public official who engages in this reckless conduct should be aware that he or she is creating a public record and is responsible for treating it as such.

Can there still be any legitimate confusion about the impropriety of this practice?