APS' blanket redaction unjustified

KOAT continues their coverage, link, of the current scandal in the leadership of the APS and its police force.  Unless I missed it, they're the only outlet still reporting on the scandal.

They report that the self investigation is done and that everything about it, and I mean everything about it will remain secret from public knowledge; secret from the people whose power and resources have been squandered.

Open government laws are pretty clear; you don't get to redact an entire body of information because just because some part of it can be redacted justifiably.  If you have enough money and lawyers, you can drag it out for years, but at some point you have to redact the record and produce the rest.

Why in the world do politicians and public servants get to redact their own record?

What is the appearance of a conflict of interests if it is not allowing people to redact the record of their own public service?

For the most part, the exceptions to open meetings and public records allow the redaction of records and meetings, they don't require it.

You know APS is redacting the truth for the wrong reasons, when they won't tell you what their reasons to redact this record are.

You know the media and press are letting you down, when they don't insist that APS produce the rest of the record; every bit of it that doesn't enjoy legitimate exception under the law.