Kentucky New Era, Inc. v. City of Hopkinsville

Opinion of the Court by

Justice ABRAMSON.

Concerned that the Hopkinsville Police Department might be responding inconsistently to similar criminal complaints, a writer for the Kentucky New Era, Inc., a newspaper serving Hopkinsville and the surrounding area, sought from the Hop-kinsville City Clerk pursuant to the Kentucky Open Records Act (Kentucky Revised Statutes (KRS) 61.870 to 61.884, hereinafter “ORA” or “the Act”) copies of arrest citations and police incident reports from January 1 through August 31, 2009 *79involving stalking, harassment or terroristic threatening. The City Clerk withheld…