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Wednesday, March 30, 2011

AG says Bowling Green should have given paper names of applicants for commission seat

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Attorney General Jack Conway has ruled that Bowling Green officials should not have kept secret the names of people who wanted the City Comm...
Monday, March 21, 2011

Inmate wins one, loses one in open-records cases; AG reminds agency of its responsibilities

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An inmate at the Kentucky State Reformatory at LaGrange was unfairly denied access to a record he requested, according to an opinion issued...
Thursday, March 17, 2011

Judge rules Passport managed-care plan for Medicaid is subject to Open Records Act

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As Kentucky prepares to put more of its Medicaid program under a managed-care system to save money, a judge has ruled that the contractor ru...
Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Family-services cabinet gets a runner-up national Black Hole Award for secrecy

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The state Cabinet for Health and Family Services ' insistence on secrecy about deaths of childred for which it has responsibility has ma...

Obama administration failing to meet open government goals, Knight survey finds

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The Obama administration is failing to fulfill its promise of improving Freedom of Information responsiveness by federal agencies, accordin...

Sunshine Week is March 13-19

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Sunshine Week, the annual event that reminds Americans of the virtue of open government, citizen access and oversight, and journalists' ...
Monday, March 14, 2011

West Virginia Legislature sends governor a shield law that protects student journalists

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Our adjoining state of West Virginia is on the verge of getting a reporter's privilege law, which journalists usually call a shield law....
Saturday, March 5, 2011

States can't reveal drug costs because federal law makes them secret; Montana governor blames drug lobby, Ky. contractor

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When Montana journalists asked Gov. Brian Schweitzer to reveal the prices the state pays for drugs in government health care programs, he sa...
Thursday, March 3, 2011

Let's observe Sunshine Week March 13-19

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It's time to plan your observance of Sunshine Week, the annual event that reminds Americans of the virtue of open government, citizen ac...
Tuesday, March 1, 2011

AG tells Retirement to give local watchdog data about Rockcastle County magistrates' benefits

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The Kentucky Retirement Systems violated the state Open Records Act when it refused to confirm the eligibility of local-government lawmaker...
Monday, February 28, 2011

City violated Open Records Act by denying request for inspection and charging for copies

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The Office of the Attorney General has ruled the C ity of Hurstbourne in Jefferson County improperly tried to bill a citizen for records he...
Saturday, February 26, 2011

Board for nursing-home administrators wants a law to let it issue secret admonitions

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A bill that was introduced late and got a fast start but has hit speed bumps and maybe a roadblock, would allow the Kentucky Board of Licens...
Wednesday, February 23, 2011

UK trustees vote to keep presidential search confidential until the final phase

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The names of finalists to be the new president of the University of Kentucky will be released only if all of them agree to the disclosure, a...
Monday, February 21, 2011

Open-records request trumped by federal law

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An attempt by The Northerner , the student newspaper of Northern Kentucky University , to monitor student grant applications ran afoul of a ...

Open-records opinions focus on request costs

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Fees to prepare answers to open-records requests were at the heart of two decisions issued Feb. 14 by the attorney general’s office. In one,...
Saturday, February 19, 2011

Whitley judge-executive apologizes for keeping information about indicted sheriff from paper

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The Whitley County judge-executive told The Times-Tribune of Corbin that he reprimanded employees in his office after finding that their res...
Friday, February 18, 2011

$1.5 million in grants fund project to hire one anti-corruption reporter in every state

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The Center for Public Integrity , a well-established, well-respected source of not-for-profit accountability journalism, is recruiting repor...
Thursday, February 17, 2011

Bill would create panel to review deaths and near-deaths of children in state care; change promised for accountability, transparency

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The House Health and Welfare Committee approved a bill Thursday to "create a panel to review deaths and near-deaths of children who are...
Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Free open-government seminar in Bowling Green

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The Barren River Area Development District will sponsor a free open-meetings and open-records seminar Wednesday, March 30, from 1 to 3:30 p...
Thursday, February 10, 2011

City council can't act on an issue because too many members have a conflict of interest

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The Lancaster City Council found itself with a dilemma when three of the six members and the mayor had to recuse themselves from discussing...