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Thursday, March 26, 2009

Federal government says it will be more open

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U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has ordered all federal agencies to be more open in the release of information, reversing Bush-era policie...
Monday, March 23, 2009

AG says city council broke open-meetings law

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The following decisions on open records and open meetings were issued by the Office of the Attorney General March 16-20: 09-OMD-051 (Harlan ...
Thursday, March 19, 2009

Electronic campaign filing bill may make it yet

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A bill that would require statewide candidates to file campaign finance reports electronically is "not completely dead," and propo...

Court system heading toward more openness, perhaps even in juvenile courts

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Leaders of Kentucky's court system are discussing major rules changes to make the courts more transparent, including proposals to make j...
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...

New attorney general decisions on records

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The following Open Records Decisions were issued by the Office of the Attorney General March 10-12: 1. 09-ORD-041 (Jefferson County) Because...

Kentucky online records access in the middle

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A new survey for Sunshine Week puts Kentucky squarely in the middle in terms of availability of on-line records, according to The Associate...
Thursday, March 12, 2009

Sunshine Week starts Sunday, March 15

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Sunshine Week, the annual observance to promote openness in government, is March 15-21. The project has many resources for newspapers and ot...
Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Attorney general issues open-records opinions

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Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway has issued four decisions in cases involving the state's open records law. In open-records and ope...
Monday, March 9, 2009

Capacity crowd shows support for investigative journalism, openness in government

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A capacity crowd in Lexington tonight was testimony to the importance of open government and investigative journalism. Journalists and about...

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...
Monday, March 2, 2009

Stumbo softens bill for investigative agency, indicates he won't push for it this year

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Noting concern over secrecy provisions in a bill to set up a legislative investigative agency, House Speaker Greg Stumbo , right, submitted...

Stumbo to revise investigative bill at 2 today

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UPDATE, 2:11 p.m.: Committee Chairman Mike Cherry says the panel will not act on the bill today, but will discuss it. At today's House S...

AG says city can't require records requests to be made in person or on special form

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The City of Cumberland can't require open-records requests to be filed in person, the state attorney general ruled last week. Attorney G...
Saturday, February 28, 2009

Conway concerned about bill for new agency; Stumbo says changes coming Monday

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Attorney General Jack Conway has raised what appear to be his first public questions about legislation to create an investigative arm of the...
Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Media appeal ban on electronic devices in murder trial

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A number of Kentucky and Ohio news organizations have filed an emergency appeal of a judge's order banning all electronic devices from t...

Panel OKs bill to ease media coverage at polls

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A bill setting new rules for news media coverage at polling places on election day unanimously passed the Kentucky Senate's State and Lo...

Column blasts bill for new investigative agency

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A bill sponsored by the Kentucky legislative leadership to set up a new investigative agency was blasted today by Herald-Leader columnist La...