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Friday, June 26, 2009

League of Cities stops releasing its records, saying it isn't a public agency

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When the Lexington Herald-Leader asked the Kentucky League of Cities for a lot of records a few months ago, the league complied. Now the org...
Monday, June 22, 2009

Attorney general says county school board violated sunshine law with serial meetings

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The Ohio County school board violated the state open-meetings law by having a series of meetings, each having less than a quorum of members,...
Thursday, June 18, 2009

League of Cities invites Herald-Leader to tomorrow's board meeting

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UPDATE: Sylvia Lovely has resigned as executive director of the league. The Kentucky League of Cities board has agreed to open its meeting t...
Monday, June 15, 2009

Open courtrooms help ensure fair trials

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The following opinion piece has appeared in several Kentucky newspapers. By Mike Farrell The governor is on the witness list. The president ...
Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Mine-safety agency not living up to Obama's promises for transparency, Ky. lawyer says

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The Mine Safety and Health Administration is getting heat from groups who claim the organization is withholding information that should be d...
Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Water board is a private entity, so it can bar members from meetings, attorney general says

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A Rockcastle County water system can bar members from its meetings because it isn't a public agency, Attorney General Jack Conway said i...
Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Latest open records decisions

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The Kentucky attorney general has issued two more open records decisions: 1. 09-ORD-071 (Mercer County) Decision adopting 08-ORD-044; N...
Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Lawyer unworried by court open meetings ruling

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First Amendment lawyer Jon Fleischaker , architect of Kentucky's open records law, says he's unworried by a federal appeals court ru...
Monday, April 27, 2009

Open records decisions issued by attorney general

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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...
Monday, April 20, 2009

More Attorney General Opinions issued

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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...
Monday, April 13, 2009

Latest open records decisions

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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...
Monday, April 6, 2009

Attorney general issues open records decisions

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The following opinion and open records/meetings decisions were issued by the Office of the Attorney General March 31-April 3: 1. OAG 09...
Tuesday, March 31, 2009

New attorney general's opinions on open records cases issued

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The following Open Records Decisions were issued by the Office of the Attorney General March 23-26: 1. 09-ORD-052 (Woodford County) Kentu...
Friday, March 27, 2009

2009 legislature does ‘very little damage’ on news organizations' issues

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