Newspapers Denied Access to Kentucky U’s Records
Three Kentucky newspapers lost a court battle to obtain information the University of Kentucky used to assemble its response to NCAA allegations against the school’s basketball program.
Fayette Circuit Judge George E. Barker denied a request Monday from the Lexington Herald-Leader, the Courier-Journal of Louisville and the Kentucky Post. Barker had been asked to reconsider an open-records decision he made in the case on March 21.
At that time, Barker divided the university’s response into three parts and directed the school to release just the first part, which contained only a list of charges and whether the university denied or admitted each charge.
The judge said then that the second and third parts--which contain thousands of pages of records, including transcripts of interviews with key witnesses--could be kept confidential under provisions of Kentucky’s Open Records Law. The law lets state agencies withhold preliminary notes, recommendations and memoranda.
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