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Showing posts with label open meetings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label open meetings. Show all posts
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 ...
Monday, March 4, 2013

Lawyer Kim Greene wins UK's James Madison Award for service to the First Amendment

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Kim Greene, who was one of Kentucky's leading First Amendment lawyers, received the James Madison Award tonight from the Scripps Howa...
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...
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...
Friday, March 30, 2012

Conway says AD district board violated meetings law in dispute between Lewis County officials

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Attorney General Jack Conway has ruled the Buffalo Trace Area Development District board violated the state Open Meetings Act in using ano...
Sunday, March 11, 2012

Kentucky State University joint regent committees failed to follow provisions of Open Meetings Act

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The attorney general's office has upheld an appeal by The State Journal  of Frankfort and reporter Katheran Wasson that committees of t...
Saturday, November 12, 2011

Butler County loses another Open Meetings appeal

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Butler County Fiscal Court has violated the Open Meetings Law again; this time, the court failed to distribute an agenda to fiscal court me...
Thursday, October 13, 2011

Parks board defends meeting behind closed doors

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The Winchester Sun has asked Attorney General Jack Conway to review an executive session the Winchester-Clark County Parks and Recreation B...
Thursday, September 15, 2011

Foes of law letting optometrists use lasers may sue, alleging violation of Open Meetings Act

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Although ophthalmologists and the Kentucky Medical Association strongly objected, a legislative committee appoved regulations Tuesday that ...
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...
Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Sunshine Week is March 13-19

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Sunshine Week, the annual event that reminds Americans of the virtue of open government, citizen access and oversight, and journalists' ...
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, 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

Two leading open-government advocates among 2011 Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame inductees

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Two leading advocates of open government are among six people in the 2011 class of the Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame, announced this wee...
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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AG: Knott Co. Fiscal Court meeting conducted over the phone violated Open Meetings Act

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Attorney General Jack Conway has ruled that the Knott County Fiscal Court violated the state Open Meetings Act by conducting a meeting of th...
Saturday, January 22, 2011

Open-government lawyer Fleischaker named press association's most valuable member

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He really isn't a member as such, but the Kentucky Press Association wouldn't be the same without him, so the group gave Louisville...
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 ...