Annotations for Statute

Frankfort Pub. Co. v. Kentucky State University Foundation, Inc., 834 S.W.2d 681, 1992 Ky. LEXIS 103 (Ky. 1992).

Notwithstanding that this section allows any person to have access to any public record relating to him or in which he is mentioned by name, a citizen was not entitled to a copy of a tape recording of a 911 call reporting that the citizen had threatened to kill his own wife and other members of his family, as the disclosure of such recording would have constituted a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy of the 911 caller in violation of KRS 61.878. Bowling v. Brandenburg, 37 S.W.3d 785, 2000 Ky. App. LEXIS 22 (Ky. Ct. App. 2000).

Other than the exception found at KRS 197.025, the open records laws identify no class or type of persons, even prisoners, who are held to a more stringent standard when submitting open records requests. This presumption in favor of broad availability of public records is even stronger when a person, like an inmate, seeks access to public records pertaining to himself, under KRS 61.884; the Department of Corrections bears the burden to rebut the strong presumption in favor of disclosure. Commonwealth v. Chestnut, 250 S.W.3d 655, 2008 Ky. LEXIS 116 (Ky. 2008).