City of Louisville v. Courier-Journal & Louisville Times Co.

WHITE, Judge.

This appeal is from a determination of the Jefferson Circuit Court that internal investigative files of the Louisville Police Department were not exempt from disclosure under the Kentucky Open Records statutes and that by withholding these records the City willfully violated such law.

In December 1979 Stanley K. MacDonald, a reporter for the Courier-Journal, filed a written request with the official records custodian for the City. The request consisted of seeking access to “... all records and documents relating to complaints filed against Louisville Police Officer Robert…