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Showing posts with label General Assembly. Show all posts
Showing posts with label General Assembly. Show all posts
Saturday, February 15, 2020

National report gives data on records decisions, notes staff attorneys give state agencies an edge; expert says noncompliance is likely to increase

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Based in part on a post by the Kentucky Open Government Coalition The National Freedom of Information Coalition recently issued a white...
Wednesday, May 31, 2017

Think tank, open-government expert propose changes to state meetings and records laws

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By Al Cross Director, Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues School of Journalism and Media, University of Kentucky A cons...
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...
Sunday, April 1, 2012

Bill that would limit release of child-abuse information appears to be dead with one day left

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A bill that could increase secrecy of child-abuse records at the Cabinet for Health and Family Services  failed to win passage on the next-...
Saturday, March 31, 2012

Legislature OKs bill to let county clerks to charge 50 cents a copy, ban scanners, cameras and such

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The Kentucky General Assembly has passed and sent to Gov. Steve Beshear a bill that would allow county clerks to charge 50 cents for a copy...
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Monday, March 19, 2012

House passes bill allowing county clerks to charge up to 50 cents a page for copies of any record

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The state House has passed and sent to the Senate a bill that would allow county clerks to charge up to 50 cents per page for paper copies ...
Friday, March 9, 2012

Bill would shield some holders of competitively procured contracts from open-records requests

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A state House committee voted yesterday "to change the Kentucky Open Records Act to make private the records of some organizations doi...
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, January 27, 2012

Beshear and child-welfare officials appeal records decision, say it is too broad, look to legislature

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On the day the state was supposed to release unadulterated records on deaths and near deaths from child abuse, under a court order, it file...
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...
Saturday, February 26, 2011

Board for nursing-home administrators wants a law to let it issue secret admonitions

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A bill that was introduced late and got a fast start but has hit speed bumps and maybe a roadblock, would allow the Kentucky Board of Licens...
Thursday, February 17, 2011

Bill would create panel to review deaths and near-deaths of children in state care; change promised for accountability, transparency

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The House Health and Welfare Committee approved a bill Thursday to "create a panel to review deaths and near-deaths of children who are...
Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Senator reintroduces bill on 911 calls

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A Northern Kentucky state senator has reintroduced a bill for the upcoming legislative session to prohibit the broadcast of 911 recordings. ...
Saturday, December 19, 2009

Key lawmaker, advocacy group back opening records of severe child abuse and neglect

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Kentucky, which leads the nation in deaths of abused and neglected children, should open its records in such cases and those involving sever...
Thursday, December 17, 2009

Chief Justice continues to support legislation to open some Family Court proceedings

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Kentucky Chief Justice John Minton Jr. would support another effort by the legislature to open family court proceedings to the public, accor...
Thursday, September 10, 2009

Bill would apply records law to officials' groups

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A bill making any organization whose employees get state retirement benefits will be subject to the Kentucky Open Records Act has been prefi...
Monday, March 16, 2009

Two press-freedom bills fail to pass

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Two press-freedom bills are among those being tossed aside with just two limited-agenda days left in this year's regular legislative ses...
Monday, March 9, 2009

Waters takes parting shot at legislative leaders' failed bill for invesigative agency

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With the Kentucky General Assembly in the last full week of its 2009 session, columnist Jim Waters took a parting shot at one of the session...
Thursday, March 5, 2009

Columnist blasts 911 bill

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The bill to prohibit broadcast of 911 call recordings, expected to be reintroduced in next year's legislative session by Sen. John Schic...
Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Bills for 911 recording secrecy, high-school press protection look dead for this year

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With the Kentucky General Assembly rushing toward the end of its session, it's apparent three bills related to open government and First...