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Wednesday, July 29, 2009

AG slaps Jefferson school board, KCTCS for secrecy surrounding executive evaluations

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The Jefferson County Board of Education can't hide from "unwanted or unpleasant public input" in evaluating Superintendent Sh...

AG decision opens up documents showing county magistrates spending in their districts

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Documents showing county magistrates how money has been spent in their districts are public records, the attorney general's office said ...
Monday, July 27, 2009

Attorney general's decision provides useful reminders about open-records law

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A new attorney general's opinion contains some useful reminders about what the state Open Records Act does and what it doesn't do. T...
Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Open Government Report 2009: Records and meetings laws relatively good, but family courts worry advocates of openness

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Kentuckians can feel confident their government is operating with a relatively high degree of transparency and openness, except for “serious...
Thursday, July 16, 2009

Attorney general tells Madison County to release more records about antenna tower

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Madison County officials who invoked the threat of terrorism and protection of a vendor’s proprietary information to avoid releasing records...
Thursday, July 2, 2009

League of Cities releasing records again

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The Kentucky League of Cities has returned to its former policy of fulfilling open-records requests from the Lexington Herald-Leader , it a...
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...