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Showing posts with label Cabinet for Health and Family Services. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cabinet for Health and Family Services. Show all posts
Sunday, December 29, 2013

C-J says Beshear must set health-and-family cabinet right on child-abuse records, following judge's order

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The Courier-Journal published a remarkable editorial Sunday excoriating the Cabinet for Health and Family Services for the high level of...
Friday, October 19, 2012

AG: Cabinet hid too much information from Inez newspaper about case of 2-year-old who died

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Attorney General Jack Conway has ruled that the state Cabinet for Health and Family Services violated the Open Records Act by withholdi...
Sunday, July 22, 2012

Editor, lawyer say open-government laws being obeyed more, but the battle will never end

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By Al Cross Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues Public officials in Kentucky are doing better at obeying open-government...
Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Senate kills, House revives moments later a bill that would curtail child services transparency

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A bill opposed by the Kentucky Press Association that could increase secrecy at the Cabinet for Health and Family Services died in a Senat...
Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Press association opposes family-court bill that would set up prior restraint confrontations

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The Kentucky Press Association is opposing a proposal that purports to open the state's family court system but would actually fall fa...
Friday, February 24, 2012

Judge orders Cabinet for Health and Family Services to speed up its release of child-abuse records

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The state Cabinet for Health and Family Services has been given 90 days to release thousands of pages pertaining to about 180 cases of ch...
Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Judge urges governor to side with openness, says appeal of other judge's ruling is to protect cabinet

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A veteran Kentucky circuit court judge has taken issue with Gov. Steve Beshear's recent opinion piece published in a number of Kentucky...
Monday, February 6, 2012

Health and family cabinet keeps withholding more information on child abuse than judge allowed

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The state Cabinet for Health and Family Services  released three more death and near-death cases involving child abuse or neglect Friday und...
Friday, November 18, 2011

Legislative committee may review transparency of state cabinet in child abuse death records

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The co-chairs of the legislative committee that oversees the state's health and welfare services say they hope to hold a hearing in Dece...

Social worker who handled case of murdered child resigns after another child's death

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A social worker for the state's Cabinet for Health and Family Services resigned in October before she was fired in the aftermath of a ch...
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Tuesday, November 8, 2011

State cabinet loses another open records lawsuit

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The state Cabinet for Health and Family Services came under a withering attack from a state judge, who said the cabinet turned a blind eye ...
Thursday, September 15, 2011

AG again says Health and Family Services Cabinet violated Open Records Act

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The attorney general's office has again cited the Cabinet for Health and Family and Services for failing to following the dictates of t...
Monday, June 6, 2011

Newspapers push fight against state cabinet

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The state's two largest newspapers wasted no time in pushing their case for a judicial order forcing the Cabinet for Health and Family S...
Thursday, June 2, 2011

Federal judge rules for newspapers, returns fight over child death records to state court

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A federal judge has ruled against the Cabinet for Health and Family Services in its continuing battle with two Kentucky newspapers over th...
Saturday, March 5, 2011

States can't reveal drug costs because federal law makes them secret; Montana governor blames drug lobby, Ky. contractor

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When Montana journalists asked Gov. Brian Schweitzer to reveal the prices the state pays for drugs in government health care programs, he sa...
Thursday, November 4, 2010

Courts rule against two state agencies

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Two Kentucky courts have made pro-transparency rulings recently. Franklin County Circuit Judge Phillip Shepherd has awarded attorney's f...