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Saturday, August 27, 2011

News outlets are less inclined to take legal action for open government, but citizens are becoming more active, national survey finds

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"While a lack of resources has made news organizations increasingly less inclined to file freedom-of-information lawsuits, citizens hav...
Wednesday, August 24, 2011

U of L physicians' group drops open-records appeal, but C-J may still not get records

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An organization representing University of Louisville doctors who were trying to keep their financial records private dropped its lawsuit a...
Monday, August 22, 2011

Series on questionable disability payments in Lexington led to closure of records involved

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Sometimes journalism based on public records prompts government officials to hide the records to prevent further journalism about them. In...
Friday, August 5, 2011

Kentucky looks like only state that denies access to recordings made by police-cruiser cameras

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Kentucky appears to be the only state that denies public access to recordings made by cameras in police cruisers. Scott Wartman of The Kentu...
Sunday, July 24, 2011

Judge closes evidentiary hearing in Todd murder case; newspaper seeking child-welfare records

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Todd Circuit Judge Tyler Gill has sealed the case record and barred journalists from a continuing hearing in the murder case of a 9-year-old...
Thursday, July 21, 2011

Louisville school-bus fight tape is open record

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Attorney General Jack Conway has ruled that a videotape of an assault on a Jefferson County Public Schools bus driver by a parent is a publ...
Monday, July 11, 2011

AG again finds KSP violated Open Records Act

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Attorney General Jack Conway, the state's chief law-enforcement officer, has again found the Kentucky State Police , the state's mai...
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...