AG's office: University of Louisville broke open records laws denying Courier Journal requests

The University of Louisville repeatedly violated the Kentucky Open Records Act by denying records to Courier Journal reporters about scandals in the athletic department, the state attorney general’s office has found.

In a March 13 opinion, the attorney general's office said the university failed to provide some records in a timely fashion and didn’t provide others at all, including personnel files for former basketball coach Rick Pitino and athletic director Tom Jurich.

The 13-page opinion also said the university improperly withheld emails from interim President Dr. Greg Postel and phone and text records for Pitino and fired assistant coaches Jordan Fair and Kenny Johnson.

Assistant Attorney General Gordon Slone also found that the university improperly redacted the destinations of recruiting trips on the grounds that it might identify recruits, in violation of a federal student privacy law. The opinion says the law doesn’t apply because the recruits weren’t yet students at Louisville.

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