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Showing posts with label local government. Show all posts
Showing posts with label local government. 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...
Thursday, August 29, 2013

Ky. high court says police can't just dismiss records requests using prospective-action exemption

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The Supreme Court of Kentucky ruled today that law enforcement records are subject to open-records requests even if there is a "prosp...
Friday, April 19, 2013

Illegal meetings held by Danville commission, court says; and by Murray regents, attorney general says

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"Two rulings came this week — one in circuit court, one by the attorney general — that public agencies have violated the state’s open ...
Sunday, January 20, 2013

Burnside violated Open Records Act, AG says

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The City of Burnside , in Pulaski County, violated the Open Records Act when it did not respond in writing to a proper request to City Coun...
Tuesday, October 2, 2012

AG says Danville solons broke open-meeting law by deciding secretly to buy a building

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UPDATE, Oct. 23: The city has appealed the decision to Boyle Circuit Court, The Advocate-Messenger reports . The City of Danville violat...

Mount Olivet violated both open-meetings and open-records laws, attorney general rules

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By Taylor Moak The Mount Olivet City Council violated the Kentucky open meetings and open records acts in its actions surrounding specia...
Thursday, August 16, 2012

Hustonville officials refuse to release text of proposed ordinances after first reading

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Here's one we've never heard before: A city refusing to provide the text of proposed ordinances on which its city council has held ...
Thursday, December 8, 2011

Disclosing total fees for sewer project does not invade customers' privacy, attorney general rules

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The City of Danville violated the state Open Records Act substantively and procedurally when it failed to respond timely and gave an inval...
Friday, September 16, 2011

AG declares Pike utility's records open

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The records of a controversial utility in Eastern Kentucky are covered by the state Open Records Act "because two public agencies suppl...
Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Hopkinsville paper publishes public officials' pay, makes readers aware of records

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Many Kentuckians are not aware they can file open-records requests to obtain information they are entitled to see, such as salaries of publi...
Monday, May 2, 2011

AG says Adair County hospital board violated open-meetings law , as newspaper alleged

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Adair County Hospital 's board of directors was wrong to hold a closed-session discussion about the future of an interim CEO because the...
Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Two Danville city commissioners walk out during closed session, refuse to comment

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Two Danville city commissioners walked out of a closed-door meeting last night, leaving the other two and the mayor to discuss a personnel m...
Wednesday, March 30, 2011

AG says Bowling Green should have given paper names of applicants for commission seat

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Attorney General Jack Conway has ruled that Bowling Green officials should not have kept secret the names of people who wanted the City Comm...
Tuesday, March 1, 2011

AG tells Retirement to give local watchdog data about Rockcastle County magistrates' benefits

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The Kentucky Retirement Systems violated the state Open Records Act when it refused to confirm the eligibility of local-government lawmaker...
Monday, February 28, 2011

City violated Open Records Act by denying request for inspection and charging for copies

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The Office of the Attorney General has ruled the C ity of Hurstbourne in Jefferson County improperly tried to bill a citizen for records he...
Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Free open-government seminar in Bowling Green

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The Barren River Area Development District will sponsor a free open-meetings and open-records seminar Wednesday, March 30, from 1 to 3:30 p...
Thursday, February 10, 2011

City council can't act on an issue because too many members have a conflict of interest

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The Lancaster City Council found itself with a dilemma when three of the six members and the mayor had to recuse themselves from discussing...
Monday, February 7, 2011

1 of 3 rulings regarding Butler County says public has no right to take part in official meetings

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State law does not give members of the public the right to participate in open meetings of public agencies, Attorney General Jack Conway rul...
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Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Online paper highlights procedural open-meetings violation but forgoes complaint

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An online newspaper based in Louisa prominently noted the Lawrence County Fiscal Court 's violation of the state Open Meetings Act in a ...
Friday, November 19, 2010

Butler County Fiscal Court loses open meetings appeal

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Butler Circuit Court Judge Ronnie Dortch has denied an appeal filed by the county's fiscal court on an open meetings case originally fil...