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Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Inmate not allowed access to letters he wrote

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Saying it would not overrule prison officials in judging whether releasing some records would pose a security threat, the state attorney gen...

National security issues snag shield-law bill

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Questions about dealing with leaks of national-security information are holding up passage of a federal shield law for journalists, Walter P...
Friday, September 18, 2009

Journalists attending Sunshine Seminar today

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Fifteen journalists gathered in Morehead this morning for the third Sunshine Seminar sponsored by the Kentucky Press Association , the Scrip...
Monday, September 14, 2009

Kentucky New Era wins open-records victory, follows up with story on health departments

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The Rural Blog reports today on an open-records victory by the Kentucky New Era in Hopkinsville that resulted in a weekend story questionin...

AG reiterates: Public officials are not required to create records that do not exist

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The Kentucky attorney general's office released eight decisions today on open-records and open-meetings issues. Several dealt with reque...
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...
Thursday, September 10, 2009

Bill would apply records law to officials' groups

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A bill making any organization whose employees get state retirement benefits will be subject to the Kentucky Open Records Act has been prefi...

AG: Public agencies' settlements are public

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Public agencies cannot keep settlement agreements in court cases confidential, Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway reminded officials in a...
Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Conway says district health department made several mistakes regarding public records

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A Western Kentucky health department “subverted the intent” of the state Open Records Act in dealing with the Hopkinsville newspaper's r...
Friday, August 28, 2009

Herald-Leader calls on Minton and Supreme Court to deliver on promises of openness

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Despite pledges from Kentucky’s chief justice to shed more light on the process of building judicial facilities, the Lexington Herald-Leader...
Thursday, August 13, 2009

Attend Sunshine Seminar in Morehead Sept.18

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The Sunshine Seminar, a refresher course on Kentucky open-records and open-meetings laws, is being offered at Morehead on Friday, Sept. 18 f...
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Attorney general issues open records decisions

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The following Open Records Decisions have been issued by the Office of the Attorney General: 09-ORD-120 (McCracken County): Reidland-Farley ...
Tuesday, August 4, 2009

AP Managing Editors give Kentucky's big papers 1st Amendment, public-service awards

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The Courier-Journal and the Lexington Herald-Leader are among recipients of awards announce yesterday by the Associated Press Managing Edito...
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...