The Chronicle: Kentucky Supreme Court Says Foundation Must Release Donor Names
The Supreme Court of Kentucky has ruled that the University of Louisville must disclose the names of 47,000 donors to the University of Louisville Foundation because the foundation is a public agency and the public’s interest in how the institution’s fund-raising arm operates outweighs concerns for donors’ privacy.
The ruling, issued last Thursday, caps a seven-year legal battle between the foundation and The Courier-Journal, a Louisville newspaper that sued to obtain the names in 2001 under the state’s open-records law. The foundation had denied the newspaper’s request for information on donors to the McConnell Center for Political Leadership. Kentucky’s senior U.S. senator, Mitch McConnell, a Republican, helped found the center.
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