A Jefferson Circuit Court judge says Jefferson County Public Schools must hand over text messages sent between top district officials on the disastrous first day of the 2023-2024 school year.
LPM News asked for the records under Kentucky’s Open Records Act in effort to reveal how administrators reacted, in real time, to one of the most consequential days in recent district history.
JCPS officials communicated primarily through text messages, but the district repeatedly refused to provide the correspondence. The reason: Officials used personal cell phones — not district phones — and JCPS attorneys argued this made the texts exempt from public disclosure…