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Showing posts with label open records. Show all posts
Showing posts with label open records. Show all posts
Friday, February 28, 2020

Nine pages or 15,000? After four years of battling in court, UK gives records to Herald-Leader

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By Linda Blackford , Lexington Herald-Leader It’s taken four years, but the Lexington Herald-Leader has finally prevailed against the Uni...
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...
Monday, January 20, 2020

Kentucky courts still grappling with records of probes into sexual harassment at universities

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From the Kentucky Open Government Coalition An article in the Wisconsin State Journal reminds us that the issue of access to university...
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, August 30, 2013

Appeals court upholds award of attorney fees to reporter, citing city's repeated 'false denials'

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The Kentucky Court of Appeals ruled today that the City of Owensboro must pay the legal fees of a newspaper reporter to whom it refused to...
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...
Tuesday, April 2, 2013

AG says UK should release records on pediatric heart surgery program, which is under review

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Attorney General Jack Conway has ruled that the University of Kentucky hospital violated the state Open Records Act by refusing to give a ...
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...
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...
Wednesday, January 2, 2013

AG says broad request for emails doesn't have to be fulfilled for six months

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The Boone County clerk can make a man who requested almost a quarter of a million emails wait six months to get the records, Attorney Gener...
Monday, December 31, 2012

UK has pediatric heart program under review, won't talk about it or release key records

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Kentucky Children's Hospital at the University of Kentucky is reviewing its cardio-thoracic surgery program and referring surgical pa...
Thursday, November 22, 2012

Judge rules U of L's hospital is public and subject to Open Records Act; it may appeal

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The University of Louisville 's hospital is a public entity, a Jefferson Circuit Court judge has ruled in a lawsuit filed to get access...
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...
Tuesday, October 2, 2012

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 ...
Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Judge tells Owensboro police to give newspaper records of probe into public information officer

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Daviess Circuit Judge Joe Castlen ruled Monday that the Owensboro Police Department must give the Messenger-Inquirer newspaper records...
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...
Monday, April 23, 2012

Appeals court allows Christian County cops to keep identifying information on police reports secret

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The Kentucky Court of Appeals has ruled that the City of Hopkinsville can "withhold home addresses, telephone numbers and driver’s li...
Friday, April 6, 2012

Harrodsburg police officer stingy with information about fatal traffic accident

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Five days after a traffic accident killed a prominent Mercer County farmer who was driving his tractor, a Harrodsburg police officer refuse...
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-...