Thanks to WDRB, Chris Otts, and — most of all — Gilbert Coursey for his relentless pursuit of *this* story of KSP's flagrant disregard for KY laws securing the public's right to know. This is *not* a new story. This is *not* a new legal precedent. The precedent is 38 plus years old.

https://casetext.com/case/city-of-louisville-v-courier-journal-etc

KSP has ignored that part of the 1982 case — which declared the complaint & final action in an internal affairs file open to public inspection — that *clearly* states: "if the notes or recommendations [are adopted] as part of final action, clearly the [exempt] characterization is lost"

KSP's refusal to acknowledge this inconvenient truth is nothing new. KSP has been repeatedly admonished by the Kentucky Attorney and the courts — through decades — for ignoring this language in the '82 precedent and subsequent cases affirming it KSP has regularly manipulated its policies to avoid this outcome & avoid accountability.

But there may be a slim hope. This WDRB podcast was taped before KSP hired 17 year open records veteran and former assistant attorney general Michelle Harrison to improve its track record and perhaps rehabilitate it. It's a tall order. Two days into her new job, her chances of success are uncertain. She knows KORA. But can she effect meaningful change?

https://www.facebook.com/419650175248377/posts/809530606260330/?d=n

Kentucky's taxpayers better hope so. KSP's defiance of the law has come at a high cost to their wallets as well as to their confidence and trust in law enforcement.