Kentucky Open Government Blog

In a speech after being sworn in yesterday, new Secretary of State Elaine Walker pledged to maintain openness in the office that oversees Ke...

U.S. Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky was one of four senators to vote against ending the secret "holds" that senators use to anonymous...

The Louisville Courier-Journal and the  Lexington Herald-Leader continue their fight to obtain Kentucky Department of Health and Family Se...

Attorney General Jack Conway has ruled that  the appointment calendar of the Fayette County school superintendent is not an open record. The...

He really isn't a member as such, but the Kentucky Press Association wouldn't be the same without him, so the group gave Louisville...

The Kentucky General Assembly has made legislative salaries and expense payments available on its website, http://www.lrc.ky.gov/ , at this ...

An online newspaper based in Louisa prominently noted the Lawrence County Fiscal Court 's violation of the state Open Meetings Act in a ...

A man who attended a community focus group whose members had been promised anonymity by university researchers does not have a right of acce...

UPDATE, Dec. 8: The judge yesterday ordered the state to give him all the records on the case by 10 a.m. today, along with a document list t...

Northern Kentucky's Sanitation District #1 "repeatedly and willfully" violated the state's open records act in a dispute w...

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...