Baker v. Jones

OPINION

VANMETER, Judge.

Records of a public agency which are preliminary in nature are not required to be disclosed under the Kentucky Open Records Act. The primary issue presented in this appeal is whether the inadvertent or unauthorized disclosure of emails to a local newspaper reporter constituted a waiver of the disclosure exemption. We hold that it did not, and we therefore affirm the judgment of the Warren Circuit Court.

On June 15, 2004, Alan Baker hand delivered an open records request to the City of Bowling Green and the Bowling Green mayor, Sandy Jones. The single copy of this letter…