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Tuesday, April 19, 2011

AG says U of L physician groups tied to Passport must release salaries, other financial data

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Two groups representing the  University of Louisville 's faculty physicians have been deemed public agencies and are subject to the stat...
Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Budget deal hits federal transparency websites

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"Government transparency websites likely will be scaled back or even eliminated as a result of a 75 percent budget cut that congression...
Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Two Danville city commissioners walk out during closed session, refuse to comment

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Two Danville city commissioners walked out of a closed-door meeting last night, leaving the other two and the mayor to discuss a personnel m...
Friday, April 8, 2011

National open-government blog is started

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Charles Davis, associate professor of journalism at the University of Missouri , has started a blog about freedom of information and open go...
Thursday, April 7, 2011

Passport Health Plan drops secrecy; governor calls on corrections non-profit to do likewise

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Passport Health Plan , the managed-care organization for Medicaid in the Louisville area, announced today that it would no longer fight to k...
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Wednesday, April 6, 2011

AG tells Kentucky Retirement Systems to reveal its salaries, which even its board doesn't know

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Attorney General Jack Conway told Kentucky Retirement Systems administrators yesterday that it must reveal how much employees are paid. The...
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 ...