Kentucky Open Government Coalition director Amye Bensenhaver recently discussed the Coalition's lawsuit against the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Commission on
Kruser and Krew, NewsTalk 590, WVLK-AM.
The conversation focused on the purpose of the litigation. Bensenhaver attempted to address *totally unfounded* claims that public officials and employees will be required to surrender their personal phones for public inspection if the Coalition prevails.
To reiterate, the coalition did not request purely personal communications on the commissioners' private cellphones, does not want the commissioner's purely personal communications on their private cellphones, and is *NOT* legally entitled to purely personal communications on commissioners' private cellphones under the open records law.
Any suggestion to the contrary is a gross misrepresentation of what our case is actually about, namely, the survival of Kentucky's open records *and* open meetings laws.
