Kentucky Open Government Blog

By Terry Anderson University of Kentucky School of Journalism and Telecommunications Some Kentucky State Police posts routinely refuse to...

Journalists must redouble their efforts to fight growing secrecy, the new president of the Society of Professional Journalists told the org...

The Kentucky League of Cities wrongly denied a Covington lawyer's request for information on how much the group paid its attorneys in a...

John Nelson, editor of the Advocate-Messenger in Danville, Ky., last night received the James Madison Award for service to the First Amendm...

The Kentucky New Era will appeal a court ruling that allows police to remove addresses and telephone numbers from crime reports before they...

The University of Kentucky's College of Communications and Information Sciences will hold a two-day session next month on Transparency a...

In decisions released today, the state attorney general’s office said the city of Danville and some county fiscal courts violated state open...

The Whitley County Police Department violated the state Open Records Act by refusing the local newspaper's request for a copy of radio t...

University of Kentucky researchers improperly refused to allow an audience member to keep material that had been handed out at a focus group...

The Kentucky State Police "repeatedly violated" the state's Open Records Act in a disputed homicide case, the state attorney g...

Issues of open government are the topic of the first post in a new blog for Rockcastle County, where a local water association has barred it...

A proposed city budget submitted to members of the city council for review is a public document, according to the Kentucky attorney general....

A circuit court judge has ruled that Hopkinsville officials improperly withheld reports from the Kentucky New Era last year. The mayor told...

The National Freedom of Information Coalition has received a $180,000 grant to support freedom of information litigation, NFOIC Executive D...

A Franklin Circuit Court judge has ruled that records on a baby who died after drinking drain cleaner should be open to the public. Judge ...

The state attorney general's office has ruled that Whitley County Sheriff Lawrence Hodge violated the state open-records law by refusing...

The Kentucky Press Association has appealed to the state Attorney General's office the refusal of Midway Mayor Tom Bozarth to release c...

Gov. Steve Beshear yesterday signed into law Senate Bill 178 , which will allow school boards to deliver evaluations of superintendents behi...

A new report , rating each state's use of online databases to give the public information about government spending, lists Kentucky as t...

Only Gov. Steve Beshear stands between the law books and legislation that would allow Kentucky school boards to evaluate superintendents in ...