Kentucky Attorney General is calling the Courier-Journal editorial board out for making things up:

Your editorial titled “Ignoring the Court” on Oct. 31, is based on an erroneous premise. In that piece, you wrote (regarding the recent state Supreme Court decision striking down a portion of Kentucky’s sex offender law restricting where offenders convicted prior to 2006 may live) that “Mr. Conway has asked Kentucky probation and parole officers to continue to enforce the contested law — in essence, disregarding the high court’s ruling.” You additionally wrote that I and my staff “advise the Corrections Department not to follow a recent state Supreme Court ruling.” These are factually incorrect statements.

Let me be clear — I and my staff have not advised the Corrections Department or its officers on this issue, nor have we been asked to do so by the Corrections Department

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Moreover, it is ironic that Andrew Wolfson’s article, published the same day as your editorial, got the facts right when he wrote that a spokeswoman for the Corrections Department stated that, “on the advice of its general counsel, the department has told its officers not to follow the ruling until the state Supreme Court decides whether it will be stayed.”

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Finally, someone of stature in society calling the C-J out.

We almost can’t believe it.

UPDATE: The C-J ran the following re: the Conway situation:

An editorial in Saturday’s Courier-Journal incorrectly said that Attorney General Jack Conway had advised Kentucky probation and parole officers to continue enforcing a sex-offender law that was struck down earlier this month by the state Supreme Court. Conway gave no advice and was not involved in any way.

Didn’t see it online anywhere. Nor did I see an apology or just cold making crap up.