Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Open Records Request Fails
KENTUCKY....
It went from an open records request to a break-in of a local sheriff's office. Under Kentucky state law, a government agency has three business days to respond to an open records request but may take longer, if needed, to actually produce the records. The Corbin Times-Tribune, on December 15th, asked for records from the Whitley County Sheriff's Office to show whether 18 guns seized during an arrest in 2004 were still at the sheriff's department or had been transferred to another agency. Whitley County Sheriff Lawrence Hodge failed to formally respond during the three-day period, and said someone broke into the department on December 21st, leaving some records in disarray and others in possession of the Kentucky State Police.
It went from an open records request to a break-in of a local sheriff's office. Under Kentucky state law, a government agency has three business days to respond to an open records request but may take longer, if needed, to actually produce the records. The Corbin Times-Tribune, on December 15th, asked for records from the Whitley County Sheriff's Office to show whether 18 guns seized during an arrest in 2004 were still at the sheriff's department or had been transferred to another agency. Whitley County Sheriff Lawrence Hodge failed to formally respond during the three-day period, and said someone broke into the department on December 21st, leaving some records in disarray and others in possession of the Kentucky State Police.
# posted by Homer Owens @ 7:04 PM 
