Kentucky Open Government Blog

The Kentucky attorney general has issued two more open records decisions: 1. 09-ORD-071 (Mercer County) Decision adopting 08-ORD-044; N...

First Amendment lawyer Jon Fleischaker , architect of Kentucky's open records law, says he's unworried by a federal appeals court ru...

The following Open Records Decisions were issued by the Office of the Attorney General on April 24, 2009: 1. 09-ORD-067 (Jefferson County) J...

The following open records decisions were issued by the Office of the Attorney General on April 14-17: 1. 09-ORD-063 (Franklin County) Kent...

The following open records decisions were issued by the Office of the Attorney General on April 7: 1. 09-ORD-061 (Floyd County) Decision a...

The following opinion and open records/meetings decisions were issued by the Office of the Attorney General March 31-April 3: 1. OAG 09...

The following Open Records Decisions were issued by the Office of the Attorney General March 23-26: 1. 09-ORD-052 (Woodford County) Kentu...

The 2009 session of the Kentucky legislature did “very little damage” on issues of interest to the state’s newspapers and broadcast media, a...

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

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 ...

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

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

Two press-freedom bills are among those being tossed aside with just two limited-agenda days left in this year's regular legislative ses...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

The bill to prohibit broadcast of 911 call recordings, expected to be reintroduced in next year's legislative session by Sen. John Schic...