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Showing posts with label privacy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label privacy. Show all posts
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, 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...
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...
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-...
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, 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...
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...
Wednesday, August 24, 2011

U of L physicians' group drops open-records appeal, but C-J may still not get records

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An organization representing University of Louisville doctors who were trying to keep their financial records private dropped its lawsuit a...
Monday, August 22, 2011

Series on questionable disability payments in Lexington led to closure of records involved

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Sometimes journalism based on public records prompts government officials to hide the records to prevent further journalism about them. In...
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...
Wednesday, February 23, 2011

UK trustees vote to keep presidential search confidential until the final phase

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The names of finalists to be the new president of the University of Kentucky will be released only if all of them agree to the disclosure, a...
Monday, February 21, 2011

Open-records request trumped by federal law

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An attempt by The Northerner , the student newspaper of Northern Kentucky University , to monitor student grant applications ran afoul of a ...
Wednesday, January 26, 2011

AG lets superintendent keep calendar private; tells PVA to release employees' vehicle records

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Attorney General Jack Conway has ruled that  the appointment calendar of the Fayette County school superintendent is not an open record. The...
Monday, January 3, 2011

Man who attended meeting can't get recording of it because group was promised confidentiality

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A man who attended a community focus group whose members had been promised anonymity by university researchers does not have a right of acce...
Tuesday, December 7, 2010

State releases records in baby's death at meth lab; newspapers seek more

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UPDATE, Dec. 8: The judge yesterday ordered the state to give him all the records on the case by 10 a.m. today, along with a document list t...
Friday, September 11, 2009

Challenge to Texas open-meetings law dismissed

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The Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has dismissed a case in which two city council members in Texas claimed the state's open-meetin...