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Monday, October 26, 2009

Attorney general rules against city, county agencies

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The Kentucky Attorney General’s office has cited several county and city agencies for holding closed sessions or meetings or refusing reques...
Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Inspector fired after newspaper investigation

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Todd County has fired its restaurant inspector after an investigation by the Kentucky New Era showed he had failed to make required inspect...
Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Attorney general rules against airport board, county officials

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The state attorney general's office has ruled the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Airport Board and county officials in Whitley, Critten...

School board violated open meetings act

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The Spencer County Board of Education violated Kentucky's Open Meetings Act by evaluating its superintendent in a closed-door sessi...
Monday, October 5, 2009

Attorney general rules in favor of Winchester Sun in open records case

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Kentucky’s Energy and Environment Cabinet cannot withhold the addresses of people receiving benefits under the Soil Erosion and Water Qualit...
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 ...