Attorney General rules UK violated open meetings laws in Herald-Leader request
President Eli Capilouto emailed campus with news that the university would be appealing decisions of the Attorney General. Among their appeals is a lawsuit against the Kernel, which requested records of the investigation into the sexual harassment claims against associate professor James Harwood.
September 2, 2016
The Lexington Herald-Leader reported Friday that Attorney General Andy Beshear’s office ruled that UK wrongly withheld documents following an open records request regarding a Hazard cardiology practice that UK once owned.
Following half a dozen controversies about other open records requests, this decision is the latest in UK’s legal battles, according to the Herald-Leader article.
UK made no comment on Friday to the Herald-Leader, the article said.
“Whether there’s something to hide, who knows. I’m not suggesting that there’s any kind of impropriety. But the law is clear that transparency is required of public institutions,” said the attorney for the Herald-Leader Thomas Miller in the newspaper’s article.
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