Annotations for Decision

County’s redaction of a suspect’s identity from a disclosed police investigation file was proper under circumstances in which the suspect was not charged with or arrested for the alleged rape investigated; although a newspaper maintained that the public had a legitimate interest in monitoring police conduct and in ensuring that the investigation was handled properly, the newspaper had been provided some 900 pages of documents concerning the investigation, and had never established or even maintained that these documents were insufficient to fully investigate the police conduct, and failed to show how disclosure of the suspect’s identity would have furthered such an interest under the facts of this case. The suspect’s intrinsic personal privacy interest outweighed the nebulously asserted public interest, and the KRS 61.878(1)(a) personal privacy exemption applied. Lexington H-L Servs. v. Lexington-Fayette Urban County Gov't, 297 S.W.3d 579, 2009 Ky. App. LEXIS 51 (Ky. Ct. App. 2009). Full Details