PADUCAH — The Kentucky Open Authorities Coalition weighed in on an area college utilizing the First Modification as an excuse to disclaim an open data request.
This stems off of testimony offered by former WKMS Station Supervisor Chad Lampe in the course of the Kentucky Judicial Conduct Fee’s hearings for former forty second Circuit Court docket Decide Jamie Jameson.
Throughout Jameson’s hearings, Lampe and Jameson each testified the choose contacted Murray State President Bob Jackson about an open data request filed by WKMS, Murray State’s public radio affiliate, to acquire video of Jameson strolling across the courthouse in his underwear. JCC charged Jameson with utilizing his place as a choose in an effort to cease the story from operating.
Within the Kentucky Open Authorities Coalition’s article, they shared their opinion on Murray State College’s reasoning to disclaim WPSD Native 6’s open data request about any communications regarding Jackson and the WKMS story.
The coalition says, “The First Modification erects no barrier to public data. It isn’t a federal regulation or regulation that prohibits disclosure of public data. Murray State’s argument is a textual non-starter and, frankly, deeply offensive.”
Their article goes on to say, “The Kentucky Open Authorities Coalition firmly believes that the open data enchantment — quickly to be filed on behalf of Perry Boxx and WPSD by Louisville attorneys Michael Abate and Rick Adams — will affirm the latter and that the communications it reveals will expose an unmatched stage of college cynicism and duplicity.”
Of their response to WPSD Native 6’s open data request, Murray State’s Normal Counsel Robert Miller says, “Allowing the general public to have interaction in fishing expeditions by looking out the recordsdata of journalists and/or an company of the press, undermines and dissuades the press from fulfilling its Constitutionally protected freedom.”
Any communications that had been offered by the college, which had been made up of conversations between the college’s Provost Tim Todd and others, had been closely redacted. These emails offered no data requested beneath Kentucky Open Information regulation.
You’ll be able to view all paperwork regarding the open data request under: