The Kentucky Court of Appeals ruling that text messages by government officials on their personal phones are subject to state Open Records laws is a victory for the citizens of Kentucky. That’s according to Amye Bensenhaver, the co-director of the nonprofit Kentucky Open Government Coalition and a former longtime employee of the state Attorney General’s Office. Friday’s ruling overturns a lower court’s decision.
“The Court of Appeals just rejected, absolutely, the narrow definition that actually is, without question, a misinterpretation a miss calculation of the broad scope of the Open Records law.”
