Kentucky Open Government Blog

Shelby County's 911 emergency dispatch service violated Kentucky's Open Records Act in denying a records request by a Shelbyville re...

Chief Justice John Minton Jr. has ordered all circuit court clerks and judges in Kentucky to make public at least the case numbers and names...

Butler Circuit Court Judge Ronnie Dortch has denied an appeal filed by the county's fiscal court on an open meetings case originally fil...

Two Kentucky courts have made pro-transparency rulings recently. Franklin County Circuit Judge Phillip Shepherd has awarded attorney's f...

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...