Request By:
Honorable Marlow W. Cook
Cook, Purcell, Henderson & Zorack
Attorneys at Law
1015 Eighteenth Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20036
Opinion
Opinion By: Steven L. Beshear, Attorney General; Carl T. Miller, Jr., Assistant Attorney General
Re: Martin Marietta Data Systems, Request of the Kentucky Finance and Administration Cabinet, Division of Purchases, to Inspect Records
On behalf of your client Martin Marietta Data Systems, you appealed to the Attorney General pursuant to KRS 61.880 the denial of its request to the Kentucky Cabinet of Finance and Administration, Division of Purchases, of certain records in its custody. The requested records were described as the response of Electronic Data Systems to the RFP to establish the Kentucky Automated Certification and Issuance System in Proposal No. SR-1216-83. Your letter of appeal was dated June 3, 1983.
Prior to receiving your letter of appeal the Attorney General received a request from Mr. Danny Shearer, Director, Division of Purchases, requesting an advisory opinion as to whether a response to an RFP was mandatorily required to be made available for public inspection under the Kentucky Open Records Law, KRS 61.870-61.884. The opinion to Mr. Shearer was issued on June 27, 1983 and is designated OAG 83-256. A copy of the opinion is enclosed herewith for your information.
OPINION OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
For the reasons stated in OAG 83-256 (attached hereto and incorporated in this opinion), it is the opinion of the Attorney General that the Finance and Administration Cabinet acted in accordance with the Kentucky Open Records Law in denying the request of Martin Marietta Data Systems to inspect the above-described records.
The requester has the right to challenge this opinion in the circuit court according to KRS 61.880(5).