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Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Senator reintroduces bill on 911 calls

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A Northern Kentucky state senator has reintroduced a bill for the upcoming legislative session to prohibit the broadcast of 911 recordings. ...
Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Kentucky court system spending data now on searchable state Web site; salary data later

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Kentucky courts recently joined the "e-Transparency initiative" launched by the executive branch of state government this year. Ju...

Louisville judges say juvenile case of soldier guilty in military homicide should be opened

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In the latest move toward opening of juvenile courts in Kentucky, a Louisville judge has affirmed a lower court's ruling that a newspape...
Monday, December 21, 2009

Attorney general says state police broke records law, unemployment board broke meetings law

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Kentucky State Police should have released information, including 911 tapes, on the death of William Sparkman in the Daniel Boone National F...
Saturday, December 19, 2009

Key lawmaker, advocacy group back opening records of severe child abuse and neglect

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Kentucky, which leads the nation in deaths of abused and neglected children, should open its records in such cases and those involving sever...
Thursday, December 17, 2009

Chief Justice continues to support legislation to open some Family Court proceedings

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Kentucky Chief Justice John Minton Jr. would support another effort by the legislature to open family court proceedings to the public, accor...
Tuesday, December 15, 2009

State police should release first page of report on death investigation, attorney general rules

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The Kentucky State Police violated the state open-records law in denying the Kentucky New Era 's request for an initial report on the S...

Judge: Board improperly closed superintendent's evaluation, must pay paper attorneys' fees, fine

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The Jefferson County Board of Education violated the Kentucky Open Meetings Act when it decided to conduct Superintendent Sheldon Berman...

Courier-Journal reporter, photographer get a rare look at Family Court in Jefferson County

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The Courier-Journal recently persuaded a Jefferson County Family Court judge to ease Kentucky's strict confidentiality rules long enough...
Monday, December 14, 2009

Federal government sets new transparency goals

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The Obama adminstration has made a major move toward realizing the president's promise, upon taking office, of more transparency in gove...
Friday, November 27, 2009

City utility bills public if they aren't for persons, attorney general rules in Danville case

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Individual billing data at a city utility is public if it doesn't reveal information about individual persons, the state attorney genera...
Friday, November 13, 2009

Appeals court sides with newspaper, rejecting Lexington council's plan to close meeting

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One of the more routinely abused exceptions to the Kentucky Open Meetings Act is the one that allows closed sessions for "proposed or p...
Monday, November 9, 2009

AG slaps Nelson ethics board, says Murray economic-development entity isn't public

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The state attorney general’s office has ruled for the second time in a month that the Joint Board of Ethics for Bardstown, Fairfield and Nel...
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...