Annotations for Statute

A Kentucky State Reformatory inmate is entitled to copies of his records by complying with the reasonable charge of reproduction. Friend v. Rees, 696 S.W.2d 325, 1985 Ky. App. LEXIS 656 (Ky. Ct. App. 1985).

A Kentucky State Reformatory inmate’s complaint against the warden and other reformatory officials for failure to furnish his financial records was properly dismissed, where the record showed that he was offered his records upon payment of the ten cents ($0.10) per page copying fee, and there was no genuine issue to be resolved. Friend v. Rees, 696 S.W.2d 325, 1985 Ky. App. LEXIS 656 (Ky. Ct. App. 1985).

Because attorneys’ and chiropractors’ constitutional challenge to KRS 189.635 failed, thus generally keeping state police accident reports confidential from them, their simultaneous constitutional challenge to KRS 61.874 over the amount they were being charged for copies of those reports was moot since they were no longer entitled to receive them at all. Amelkin v. McClure, 330 F.3d 822, 2003 FED App. 0168P, 2003 U.S. App. LEXIS 10832 (6th Cir. Ky.), cert. denied, 540 U.S. 1050, 124 S. Ct. 827, 157 L. Ed. 2d 699, 2003 U.S. LEXIS 8627 (U.S. 2003).

Newspaper reporter was not responsible for the expense under Ky. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 61.874(3) as redaction was not the equivalent of a change in format, and § 61.878(4) did not specify that costs were to be borne by the requestor. Commonwealth v. Courier Journal, 601 S.W.3d 501, 2020 Ky. App. LEXIS 42 (Ky. Ct. App. 2020).

Where a teacher’s open records request to view videotape recordings of her own classroom was denied on grounds this would violate the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), 20 USCS § 1232g, and the Kentucky Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (KFERPA), KRS 160.700 et seq., the Circuit Court properly denied her request to view the tapes in camera since this would have rendered the entire controversy void. Medley v. Bd. of Educ., 168 S.W.3d 398, 2004 Ky. App. LEXIS 305 (Ky. Ct. App. 2004).