The high court ruled that Kentucky’s law enforcement agencies have been improperly relying on a state statute “as a justification to shield their public records from public scrutiny for nearly 50 years.”
The Louisville Metro Ethics Commission claims in a new lawsuit that it doesn't have complete power over its own records as a city ordinance requires.
An open records request by WDRB News revealed six LMPD terminations this year, and all but one of the officers were recruits or still on probation.
In multiple instances in the past, Madden has been found incompetent and failed to meet Kentucky's criteria for involuntary hospitalization — meaning he repeatedly walked free — dodging both incarceration and mental health treatment.
The men were not charged. It is legal to openly carry a firearm in public in Kentucky.
The order follows Judge Thomas Wingate's June 24 ruling in which he said he could not "fathom" how the law enforcement agency justified withholding internal investigations of troopers.
Public agencies in Kentucky are increasingly filing lawsuits against citizens seeking public records
"We have reason to believe that the state police has actively withheld information and … are covering up certain instances of evidence that came about from" the abduction, an attorney told a Franklin County judge.