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Monday, June 6, 2011

Newspapers push fight against state cabinet

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The state's two largest newspapers wasted no time in pushing their case for a judicial order forcing the Cabinet for Health and Family S...
Thursday, June 2, 2011

Federal judge rules for newspapers, returns fight over child death records to state court

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A federal judge has ruled against the Cabinet for Health and Family Services in its continuing battle with two Kentucky newspapers over th...
Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Agencies told their forms are improper

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The office of Attorney General Jack Conway issued two opinions last week criticizing public bodies for denying records inappropriately. The ...
Friday, May 27, 2011

Inmates lose open-records requests

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The Attorney General’s office has upheld the denial of records in two separate cases involving inmates in state prison, ruling the requested...
Tuesday, May 24, 2011

State high court makes clear that contempt proceedings against jurors must be public

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In a ruling that could clear up what it called "continuing confusion" among Kentucky judges, the state Supreme Court has ruled una...

City must give plaintiff contracts, personnel files

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A city-owned arena can't refuse to release information about its contracts and personnel just because that might put it and its contract...
Monday, May 2, 2011

AG says Adair County hospital board violated open-meetings law , as newspaper alleged

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Adair County Hospital 's board of directors was wrong to hold a closed-session discussion about the future of an interim CEO because the...
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....